Prohibiting plunder [electronic resource] : how norms change / Wayne Sandholtz.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2007Description: 1 online resource (xi, 338 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780199868391 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Cultural property -- Protection (International law) -- History | Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation

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ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
'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.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.