The rape of Mesopotamia :
Rothfield, Lawrence, 1956-
The rape of Mesopotamia : behind the looting of the Iraq Museum / Lawrence Rothfield. - Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2009. - xii, 216 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.
Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view -- "Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period -- Getting to the postwar planning table -- The meetings -- A punctual disaster: the looting of the National Museum of Iraq -- The world responds -- The slow-motion disaster: post-combat looting of archaeological sites -- Deathwatch for Iraqi antiquities.
0226729451 (hbk.) : 9780226729459
2008031053
GBA922480 bnb
Matḥaf al-ʿIrāqī.
Iraq War, 2003---Destruction and pillage.
Archaeological thefts--Iraq.
Iraq--Antiquities.
DS79.76. / R68 2009
956.704431
The rape of Mesopotamia : behind the looting of the Iraq Museum / Lawrence Rothfield. - Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press, c2009. - xii, 216 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-203) and index.
Cultural heritage protection in Iraq before 2003: the long view -- "Nobody thought of culture": war-related heritage protection in the early prewar period -- Getting to the postwar planning table -- The meetings -- A punctual disaster: the looting of the National Museum of Iraq -- The world responds -- The slow-motion disaster: post-combat looting of archaeological sites -- Deathwatch for Iraqi antiquities.
0226729451 (hbk.) : 9780226729459
2008031053
GBA922480 bnb
Matḥaf al-ʿIrāqī.
Iraq War, 2003---Destruction and pillage.
Archaeological thefts--Iraq.
Iraq--Antiquities.
DS79.76. / R68 2009
956.704431