The Rape of Mesopotamia
Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
228 pages, 20 halftones, 1 map 6 x 9
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2009
Cloth $25.00
ISBN: 9780226729459
Published April 2009
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Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Cultural Heritage Protection in Iraq before 2003: The Long View 2 “Nobody Thought of Culture”: War-Related Heritage Protection in the Early Prewar Period 3 Getting to the Postwar Planning Table 4 The Meetings 5 A Punctual Disaster: The Looting of the National Museum of Iraq 6 The World Responds 7 The Slow-Motion Disaster: Post-Combat Looting of Archaeological Sites 8 Deathwatch for Iraqi Antiquities Coda Appendix: Interviews Notes Bibliography Index
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