Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered by Baker, Raymond W.

Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745328126)

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Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered by Baker, Raymond W.

Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered

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Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered by Baker, Raymond W.

Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered

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Why did the invasion of Iraq result in the destruction of culture and murder 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' wilful 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 of thousands of doctors, lawyers, artists and other intellectuals add up to cultural cleansing. This book lays to rest claims that the invasion aimed to free an educated population to develop its own culture of democracy.

Author: Raymond W. Baker
ISBN-10: 0745328121
ISBN-13: 9780745328126
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2010
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.20w x 0.70d
By Raymond W. Baker
By Raymond W. Baker
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Raymond William Baker is Professor of International Politics, Trinity College, USA, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the American University in Cairo. His most recent book is Islam Without Fear: Egypt and the New Islamists.

Shereen T. Ismael is an Assistant Professor of Social Work and MSW Field Coordinator in the School of Social Work, Carleton University. In addition to her book Child Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State: from Entitlement to Charity (2006), she is the editor of Globalization: Policies, Challenges and Responses (1999).

Tareq Y. Ismael is a professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada & President of the International Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies at eastern Mediterranean University. His most recent works include Middle East Politics Today (2001), Turkey's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century (2003), & Iraq: The Human Cost of History (2003).

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