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Prohibiting plunder

by Wayne Sandholtz

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'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.

Art theftsCultural propertyHistoryLaw and legislationProtectionProtection (International law)Cultural property, protection