Prohibiting plunder how norms change / [electronic resource] :
Wayne Sandholtz.
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.
- 1 online resource (xi, 338 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'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.
9780199868391 (ebook) : No price
Cultural property--Protection (International law)--History. Cultural property--Protection--Law and legislation. Art thefts.