04800nam 2200649Ia 450 991046392680332120200520144314.01-927043-02-6(CKB)2670000000410959(EBL)3015411(SSID)ssj0001101691(PQKBManifestationID)11650168(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001101691(PQKBWorkID)11068165(PQKB)11328562(MiAaPQ)EBC1340880(Au-PeEL)EBL1340880(CaPaEBR)ebr10745654(OCoLC)855969784(EXLCZ)99267000000041095920070425d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWetlands of mass destruction[electronic resource] ancient presage for contemporary ecocide in southern Iraq /edited by Robert Lawrence France ; foreword by Edward Ochsenschlager ; essays by Nik Wheeler, Emma Nicholson and Rasheed Al-KhayounSheffield, Vermont Green Frigate Books20071 online resource (248 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-9717468-3-4 ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword ""; ""Past-Present Ethno-Archaeological Linkages in Iraqâ€?s Marshlands: Edward L. Ochsenschlager ""; ""Preface - Out of Timeâ€?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""; ""â€œA Swamp He Made Into Dry Landâ€?""; ""â€œWhat the evil winds had sent hitherâ€?""; ""â€œDisturbed was the Tigris riverâ€? """"â€œThe menâ€?knew not waterâ€? """"â€œThe waterâ€?has gone badâ€?""; ""â€œI shall weep for you, the pure Euphratesâ€?""; ""Essay One:""; ""Witness to a Lost Landscape: The Marshes in the Mid-Seventies: Nik Wheeler ""; ""Part Two: Ecology""; ""â€œThe Lordâ€?s Word Kills the Marshâ€? ""; ""â€œI shall dig out reed thicketsâ€?""; ""â€œThe earthâ€?s outcryâ€?""; ""â€œNot even a reed marsh was to be seenâ€? ""; ""â€œThe mantles of radiance were lostâ€? ""; ""â€œIn the fields the surface had become badâ€? ""; ""â€œMy tears ran down my cheeksâ€?""; ""Essay Two:""""Human Rights Issues in the Iraqi Marshlands: A Case for Genocide: Baroness Emma Nicholson of Winterbourne """"Part Three: People""; ""â€œA Reed Pipe of Dirgesâ€? ""; ""â€œHe plotted evil, to devastate the land, to destroy peopleâ€? ""; ""â€œA day of doomâ€? ""; ""â€œThe dead outnumber the livingâ€?""; ""â€œTheir hands have caught youâ€?""; ""â€œThe people scatteredâ€?""; ""â€œLaughter is become lamentâ€?""; ""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 Universityâ€?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 ""This important account investigates the ruin of the Mesopotamian marsheshistorically one of the world's most important wetland environmentsalong 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 and depending on sustainable fishing and farming. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Iraq, the history of this important ecological and unique cultural jewel, which was destroyed under Saddam Hussein's reign through a series of constructed dams and water diversions designed to eradicMarsh ArabsIraqWetland ecologyIraqGenocideIraqCuneiform inscriptionsTranslations into EnglishElectronic books.Marsh ArabsWetland ecologyGenocideCuneiform inscriptions915.67France R. L(Robert Lawrence)890822Wheeler Nik890823Nicholson Emma890824Khayyūn Rashīd890825MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463926803321Wetlands of mass destruction1989935UNINA