{"product_id":"humane-9781250858719","title":"Humane","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA prominent historian exposes the dark side of making war more humane\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the years since 9\/11, we have entered an age of endless war, with the United States exercising dominion everywhere. In \u003ci\u003eHumane\u003c\/i\u003e, Samuel Moyn asks a troubling but urgent question: What if efforts to make war more ethicalto ban torture and limit civilian casualtieshave only shored up the military enterprise and made it sturdier?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo advance this case, Moyn looks back at a century and a half of passionate arguments about the ethics and law of using force. In the nineteenth century, the founders of the Red Cross struggled mightily to make war less lethal even as they acknowledged its inevitability. Leo Tolstoy prominently opposed their efforts, reasoning that war needed to be abolished, not reformedand over the subsequent century, a popular movement to abolish war flourished on both sides of the Atlantic. Eventually, however, reformers shifted their attention from opposing the crime\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528998330711,"sku":"9781250858719","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781250858719.jpg?v=1731873889","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/humane-9781250858719","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}