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Lawrence Rothfield

The Rape of Mesopotamia

Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum

228 pages, 20 halftones, 1 map  6 x 9  © 2009

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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

Subjects



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