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Название: From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law
Автор: Will Smiley
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Год: 2018
Формат: djvu
Страниц: 300
Размер: 18.5 Мб
Язык: English
The Ottoman-Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East, but they also birthed a novel concept--the prisoner of war. For centuries, hundreds of thousands of captives, civilians and soldiers alike, crossed the legal and social boundaries of these empires, destined for either ransom or enslavement. But in the eighteenth century, the Ottoman state and its Russian rival, through conflict and diplomacy, worked out a new system of regional international law. Ransom was abolished; soldiers became prisoners of war; and some slaves gained new paths to release, while others were left entirely unprotected.