Includes material on the "Red Cross, the first Geneva Conventions, and the many Conventions and regulations concluded at the Hague in 1899 and 1907."

Includes index.

Introduction : definitions and connexions -- The later Enlightenment consensus -- First steps in modern war : revolutionary, national and popular -- The legislative foundations, 1815-1914 : conscience, codes and compromise -- The trials of total war -- The law of war in a world of co-existences -- Chronological guide.