The Return of Cultural Treasures - Hardcover

Greenfield, Jeanette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521471702 ISBN 13: 9780521471701

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

The return of cultural treasures to their homelands has become the subject of heated public debate in recent years. This is an updated, revised edition of Dr Greenfield's pioneering study exploring the historical, legal, and political issues involved in a wide variety of cases. Extremely readable and highly illustrated.

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'She brings style, enthusiasm and the mind of an international lawyer to the complex historical legal and political issues ...' The Times

' ... a fine book on a very important subject often surrounded not just by controversy but plain lies. It is a book which all interested in the cultural heritage of the people of the world will find very rewarding reading.' Sydney Morning Herald

Reseña del editor

The return of cultural treasures to their homelands has become the subject of heated public debate in recent years, highlighted by the controversial case of the so-called Elgin Marbles. In this important and pioneering work, Jeanette Greenfield analyses and discusses the historical, legal and political issues surrounding a wide cross-section of similar cases. This concise, revised edition brings the story up to date, with new material on art treasures and museums in Russia after the break-up of the Soviet Union, the claims to the Vatican of the Hebrew Manuscripts, and the saga of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is an extremely readable account with more than one hundred striking illustrations. The interdisciplinary approach makes it accessible to a wide range of readers interested in cultural heritage, archaeology and anthropology, museums, art history and international law.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521471702
• ISBN 13: 9780521471701
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 373