Prohibiting plunder : how norms change / Wayne Sandholtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandholtz, Wayne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Protection (International law)--History.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Protection--Law and legislation.

Art thefts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

International norm change

Plunder and the spoils of victory

Napoleonic plunder and the emergence of norms

The International law activists : elaborating norms in the nineteenth century

The Great War and the protection of art

Nazi plunder : strengthening the rules

Codifying norms : Nuremberg and the Hague

War in the 1990s : crimes against cultural heritage

Repercussions of Nazi plunder : internalizing international norms

Baghdad and beyond

Dynamics of international norm change.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-326) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-986839-5

1-282-73109-2

9786612731099

0-19-972547-0

OCLC:

422616177