World War 1 and the End of the Ottomans : From the Balkan wars to the Armenian Genocide /

World War 1 and the End of the Ottomans : From the Balkan wars to the Armenian Genocide / edited by Hans- Lukas Kieser. - New York : I.B Tauris & Co.Ltd., 2015. - xv, 304 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

9781784532468.


Iraq War, 2003-2011--Destruction and pillage.
Archaeological thefts--Iraq.


Iraq--Antiquities.

956.704431