Main entry:

Rothfield, Lawrence, 1956-

Title & Author:

The rape of Mesopotamia : behind the looting of the Iraq Museum / Lawrence Rothfield.

Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Description:

xii, 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

Summary:

In April, 2003, as the world watched a statue of Saddam Hussein come crashing down in Baghdad, a mob of looters attacked the Iraq National Museum. The pillaging went unchecked and more than 15,000 artifacts were stolen. This book looks at how this wholesale thievery was allowed to occur.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780226729459 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226729451 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Matḥaf al-ʻIrāqī.
Matòhaf al-°Ir¿aq¿i.
Bagdad Irak-Museum.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 Destruction and pillage.
Archaeological thefts Iraq.
Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 Destruction et pillage.
Vol d'antiquités Irak.
Antiquities
Archaeological thefts
Destruction and pillage
Kunstraub
Golfkrieg
Archäologische Stätte
Plünderung
Iraq.
Iraq War (2003).
Cultural heritage.
Art.
Theft.
Irakkriget 2003-
Kulturarvsskydd.
Kulturarv Irak.
Iraq Antiquities.
Irak Antiquités.
Irak
Irak fornlämningar.
Iraq War, 2003- Destruction and pillage

Holdings:

Location: Library main 268813
Call No.: BIB 200662
Status: Available