Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered
Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and killings of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime. Post-invasion chaos created conditions under which the cultural foundations of the state could be undermined. The authors painstakingly document the consequences of the occupiers' willful inaction and worse, which led to the ravaging of one of the world's oldest recorded cultures. Targeted assassination of over 400 academics, kidnapping and the forced flight o…
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Weitere Autoren: Ismael, Shereen T. (Hrsg.) / Ismael, Tareq Y. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7453-2813-3
- EAN: 9780745328133
- Produktnummer: 5386108
- Verlag: Pluto Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 298 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.0 cm 480 g
- Gewicht: 480
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