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America's treatment of enemy prisoners of war, from the Revolution to the War on Terror
1 online resource (xx, 468 pages :) : illustrations
Prisoners of independence: British and Hessian enemy prisoners of war -- Habeas corpus: war against Loyalists and Quakers -- The second American Revolution: cartel and enemy prisoners of the War of 1812 -- Manifest destiny versus nativism: Mexico, 1846-1848 -- Prisoners of politics: a very uncivil war -- Indians as POWs in America: from discovery to 1914 -- Spaniards and Insurrectos: Spanish-American War (1898) and war in the Philippines (1899-1905) -- Over there and over here: enemy prisoners of war and prisoners of state in the Great War -- Pensionierte Wehrmacht: German and Italian POWs and internees in the United States -- The reborn: Japanese soldiers as enemy prisoners of war and American Nisei internees -- After the victory: optimism, justice, or vengeance? -- Prisoners at war: forced repatriation and the prison revolts in Korea -- Vietnam quagmire: enemy prisoners of war, Phoenix, and the Vietcong infrastructure -- To Desert Storm and beyond: enemy prisoners of war and the conflict of rules -- Iraqi freedom, Abu Ghraib, and the Guantanamo: the problem of the moral high ground -- The evolution of new paradigms: reflections on the past, present, and future.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-437) and index.