• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Prohibiting plunder : how norms change
  • Contributor: Sandholtz, Wayne [Author]
  • imprint: New York: Oxford University Press, c2007
  • Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 338 p.); ill
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195337235.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780199868391
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  • Keywords: Cultural property Protection (International law) History ; Cultural property Protection Law and legislation ; Art thefts ; Cultural property ; Protection (International law) ; History ; Cultural property ; Protection ; Law and legislation
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: 'Prohibiting Plunder' traces and explains the emergence of international rules against wartime looting of cultural treasures, and explores how anti-plunder norms have developed over the past 200 years. The book covers highly topical events including the looting of thousands of antiquities from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.