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Antiquities under Siege - Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War (Hardcover): Lawrence Rothfield Antiquities under Siege - Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War (Hardcover)
Lawrence Rothfield; Contributions by John B. Alexander, J Holmes Armstead, Matthew Bogdanos, Mounir Bouchenaki, …
R3,055 Discovery Miles 30 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. The museum's looting grabbed headlines worldwide and public attention briefly focused on Iraq's threatened cultural heritage. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, was the subsequent epidemic of looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country. Illegal digging on a massive scale continues to this day, virtually unchecked, with Iraq's ten thousand officially recognized sites being destroyed at a rate of roughly 10 percent per year. This book contains the first full published account of the disasters that have befallen Iraq's cultural heritage, and it analyzes why the array of laws and international conventions; the advocacy efforts of cultural heritage organizations; and the military planning and implementation of cultural protection operations all failed, and continue to fail, to prevent massive and irreversible loss. Looking forward, the book identifies new planning procedures, policy mechanisms, and implementation strategies capable of succeeding, so the mistakes of Iraq will not be replicated in other regions in crisis whose cultural heritage are at risk. Both archaeologists and policy-makers will benefit from this detailed study.

Antiquities under Siege - Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War (Paperback): Lawrence Rothfield Antiquities under Siege - Cultural Heritage Protection after the Iraq War (Paperback)
Lawrence Rothfield; Contributions by John B. Alexander, J Holmes Armstead, Matthew Bogdanos, Mounir Bouchenaki, …
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As Saddam Hussein's government fell in April 2003, news accounts detailed the pillage of Iraq's National Museum. The museum's looting grabbed headlines worldwide and public attention briefly focused on Iraq's threatened cultural heritage. Less dramatic, though far more devastating, was the subsequent epidemic of looting at thousands of archaeological sites around the country. Illegal digging on a massive scale continues to this day, virtually unchecked, with Iraq's ten thousand officially recognized sites being destroyed at a rate of roughly 10 percent per year. This book contains the first full published account of the disasters that have befallen Iraq's cultural heritage, and it analyzes why the array of laws and international conventions; the advocacy efforts of cultural heritage organizations; and the military planning and implementation of cultural protection operations all failed, and continue to fail, to prevent massive and irreversible loss. Looking forward, the book identifies new planning procedures, policy mechanisms, and implementation strategies capable of succeeding, so the mistakes of Iraq will not be replicated in other regions in crisis whose cultural heritage are at risk. Both archaeologists and policy-makers will benefit from this detailed study.

The Measure of Man - Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance (Hardcover): Lawrence Rothfield The Measure of Man - Liberty, Virtue, and Beauty in the Florentine Renaissance (Hardcover)
Lawrence Rothfield
R667 Discovery Miles 6 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It was one of the most concentrated surges of creativity in the history of civilization. Between 1390 and 1537, Florence poured forth an astonishing stream of magnificent artworks. But Florentines did more during this brief period than create masterpieces. As citizens of a fractious republic threatened from below, without, and within, they also were driven to reimagine the political and ethical basis of their world, exploring the meaning and possibilities of liberty, virtue, and beauty. This vibrant era is brought to life in rich detail by noted historian Lawrence Rothfield in The Measure of Man. His highly readable account introduces readers to a city teeming with memorable individuals and audacious risk-takers, capable of producing works of the most serene beauty and acts of the most shocking violence. Rothfield's cast of characters includes book hunters and book burners, devout Christians and assassins, humble pharmacists and arrogant oligarchs, all caught up in a dramatic struggle--a tragic arc running from the cultural heights of republican idealism in the early fifteenth century, through the aesthetic flowerings and civic vicissitudes of the age of the Medici and Savonarola, to the brooding meditations of Machiavelli and Michelangelo over the fate of the dying republic.

Vital Signs - Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Paperback, 1st Paperback Ed): Lawrence Rothfield Vital Signs - Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Paperback, 1st Paperback Ed)
Lawrence Rothfield
R1,359 Discovery Miles 13 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Vital Signs" offers both a compelling reinterpretation of the nineteenth-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary history forms a subset of the history of discourses and their attendant practices. He shows how clinical medicine provided Balzac, Flaubert, Eliot, and others with narrative strategies, epistemological assumptions, and models of professional authority. He also traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism.

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