Bøker av Peter Karsten

Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head and a jurisprudence of the heart.

?In this well-researched work Karsten discusses the laws or norms of war from ancient times to the present and analyzes a substantial number of violations of those laws, including the My Lai massacre....His book is recommended to the reader who suspects that humanity is more than an anthropological term.?-Library Journal

In this book, Karsten examines the consequences of American military life from the Revolutionary War to the present. A long introduction, containing the author's survey and general conclusions, comprises the first section. The rest of the book is made up of source material--graphs, tables, and first-hand contemporary accounts.