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Destroying the Caroline : the frontier raid that reshaped the right to war
- Title
- Destroying the Caroline : the frontier raid that reshaped the right to war / Craig Forcese.
- Author
- Forcese, Craig, 1969-
- Publication
- Toronto : Irwin Law, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 369 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In the middle of night on 29 December 1837, Canadian militia commanded by a Royal Navy officer crossed the Niagara River to the United States and sank the Caroline, a steamboat being used by insurgents tied to the 1837 rebellion in Upper Canada. That incident, and the diplomatic understanding that settled it, have become shorthand in international law for the "inherent right to self-defence" exercised by states in far-off places and in different sorts of war. The Caroline is remembered today when drones kill terrorists and state leaders contemplate responses to threatening adversaries through military action. But it is remembered by chance and not design, and often imperfectly. This book tells the story of the Caroline affair and the colourful characters who populated it. Along the way, it highlights how the Caroline and claims of self-defence have been used--and misused--in response to modern challenges in international relations. It is the history of how a forgotten conflict on an unruly frontier has redefined the right to war."--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The destruction of the Caroline -- Debating the Caroline -- The merits of the Caroline -- The idea of the Caroline -- A very modern steamboat.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6669
- ISBN
- 1552214788
- 9781552214787
- OCLC
- 1029774992
- Author
- Forcese, Craig, 1969- author.
- Title
- Destroying the Caroline : the frontier raid that reshaped the right to war / Craig Forcese.
- Publisher
- Toronto : Irwin Law, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Forcese, Craig 1969-, author. Destroying the Caroline.: Toronto : Irwin Law, 2018. (CaOONL)20189011734
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6669