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Prohibiting Plunder: How Norms Change
Prohibiting Plunder How Norms Change
Author: Wayne Sandholtz
For much of history, the rules of war decreed that "to the victor go the spoils." The winners in warfare routinely seized for themselves the artistic and cultural treasures of the defeated; plunder constituted a marker of triumph. By the twentieth century, international norms declared the opposite, that cultural monuments should be shielded fr...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195337235
ISBN-10: 0195337239
Publication Date: 12/31/2007
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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