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Wetlands of mass destruction : ancient presage for contemporary ecocide in southern Iraq /
This important account investigates the ruin of the Mesopotamian marshes, historically one of the world's most important wetland environments, along with the decimation of an area inhabited, since the time of the Sumerians, by thousands of people living on artificial islands of mud and reeds an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sheffield, Vermont :
Green Frigate Books,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Past-Present Ethno-Archaeological Linkages in Iraq's Marshlands: Edward L. Ochsenschlager; Preface
- Out of Time's Abyss: Voices of Portent; Prologue of Yesterday
- In the Garden of Earthly Delights: Eden Found; Introduction to Today
- Wetlands of Mass Destruction: Paradise Lost; Album and Essays; Part One: Water; "A Swamp He Made Into Dry Land"; "What the evil winds had sent hither"; "Disturbed was the Tigris river"; "The men ... knew not water"; "The water ... has gone bad"; "I shall weep for you, the pure Euphrates."
- Essay One:Witness to a Lost Landscape: The Marshes in the Mid-Seventies: Nik Wheeler; Part Two: Ecology; "The Lord's Word Kills the Marsh"; "I shall dig out reed thickets"; "The earth's outcry"; "Not even a reed marsh was to be seen"; "The mantles of radiance were lost"; "In the fields the surface had become bad"; "My tears ran down my cheeks"; Essay Two:; Human Rights Issues in the Iraqi Marshlands: A Case for Genocide: Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne; Part Three: People; "A Reed Pipe of Dirges"; "He plotted evil, to devastate the land, to destroy people"; "A day of doom."
- "The dead outnumber the living""Their hands have caught you"; "The people scattered"; "Laughter is become lament"; Essay Three:; Experiences and Hopes of the People of the Al-Ahwar Marshes: Rasheed Bander Al-Khayoun; Postscript for Tomorrow; The End is Nay: Eden Restored; Appendix; Harvard University's Collection of Near Eastern Artifacts and Archive of Early Marsh Arab Photographs; Inscription and Quotation Key; Inscription Sources; Photograph Key; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors.