1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450147603321

Autore

O'Shea Andreas

Titolo

Amnesty for Crime in International Law and Practice / / Andreas O'Shea

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : Brill | Nijhoff, , 2002

ISBN

1-280-46807-6

9786610468072

1-4175-5524-6

90-474-0308-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Disciplina

341.481

Soggetti

Amnesty

International and municipal law

International crimes

International criminal law

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Treaties and Other Agreements. -- Table of Amnesty Laws and Decrees. -- Table of Cases. -- Abbreviations. -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. The Practice of Amnesty: Its Emergence, Development and Rational. -- 3. National Amnesty Laws. -- 4. The Rationale of Legal Liability and Amnesty. -- 5. Opting for Prosecution or Amnesty in a System of General Relativity. -- 6. Prosecution Pursuant to International Humanitarian Law Treaties. -- 7. Addressing Impunity through Human Rights Treaties and Related Instruments. -- 8. Defining the Parameters and Criteria for a General Norm against Impunity. -- 9. State Practice, Opinio Juris and a Duty to Prosecute. -- 10. Amnesty and Civil Liability. -- 11. Reconciling Municipal Amnesty with Global Justice: the need for a Protocol to the Rome Statute. -- 12. Conclusion Towards the Development of Principles for the Limitation of Municipal Amnesty Laws. -- Appendix: -- Draft Protocol. -- Bibliography. -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book contains a comprehensive and well-researched study of the relationship between municipal amnesty laws and developing principles



of international criminal law. It pursues a path towards defining criteria for reconciling these two delicate fields of transitional justice. It concludes with a concrete proposal for the international community of states.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792169103321

Titolo

"Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-63101-017-4

1-63101-016-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 p.)

Disciplina

813.3

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

Sea stories, American - History and criticism

Oceania Description and travel

Oceania In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on papers presented at the Fourth International Melville Society Conference held in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii on June 3-7, 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Hawaiian Diacriticals -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Pacific Subjects -- Chapter one: Typee: Melville's Contribution to the Well-Being of Native Hawaiians -- Chapter Two: Fayaway and Her Sisters: Gender, Popular Literature, and Manifest Destiny in the Pacific, 1848-1860 -- Chapter Three: Depraved and Vicious / Urbane and Domestic: Herman Melville, Elizabeth Sanders, and Traditions of Figuring Hawaiians --Chapter Four: Sociolinguistic-Ethnohistorical Observations on Pidgin English in Typee and Omoo --Chapter Five: He alo ahe alo: Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio at the Melville and the Pacific Conference -- Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation



to 1887 -- Part II: Colonial Appropriations and Resistance -- Chapter Six: A work I Have Never Happened to Meet --  Melville's versions of Porter in Typee -- Chapter Seven: Plagiarizing Polynesia: Decolonization in Melville's Omoo Borrowings -- Chapter Eight: Mapping the Marquesas for Typee --Chapter Nine: Mapping Imagination and Experience in Melville's Pacific Novels -- Chapter Ten: Rozoko in the Pacific: Melville's Natural History of Creation -- Part III: Empire, Race, and Nation -- Chapter Eleven: Travels in the Interior: Typee, Pym, and the Limits of  Transculturation -- Chapter Twelve: Duty and Profit Hand in Hand: Melville, Whaling, and the Failure of Heroic Materialism -- Chapter Thirteen: Strike through the Unreasoning Masks: Moby-Dick and Japan -- Chapter Fourteen: The Subordinate Phantoms: Melville's Conflicted Response to Asia in Moby-Dick --Chapter Fifteen: Facts Picked Up in the Pacific: Fragmentation, Deformation, and the (Cultural) Uses of Enchantment in The Encantadas -- Chapter Sixteen: Of Mimicry and Masques: Benito Cereno and the National Allegory -- Part IV: Postcolonial Reflections -- Chapter Seventeen: Poem as Palm: Polynesia and Melville's Turn to Poetry -- Chapter Eighteen: Tribal Queequeg and Daniel Quinn: Glimpsing Melville's Undiscovered Prime -- Chapter Nineteen: Taking the Polynesians to Heart: Melville's Typee and Merwin's The Folding Cliffs --Chapter Twenty: Marquesan Survivals: Melville and the Sacrifice of Reality Television -- Chapter Twenty-One: Lines of Dissent: Oceanic Tattoo and the Colonial Contest -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Moby-Dick and the War on Terror -- Contributors -- Works Cited -- Index.



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00181248

Autore

KOHT, Halvdan

Titolo

The American spirit in Europe : a survey of transatlantic influences / Halvdan Koht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania press, 1949 - IX, 289 p. ; 24 cm.

Soggetti

Stati Uniti - Europa - Rapporti

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia