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Title Imperialism, art and restitution / edited by John Henry Merryman
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Description x, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. View from the universal museum / James Cuno -- App. Declaration on the importance and value of universal museums -- 2. From global pillage of pillars of collaboration / Talat Halman -- 3. Museums as centers of cultural understanding / Willard L. Boyd -- 4. Imperial appropriations of the Parthenon / William St. Clair -- 5. Whither the Elgin marbles? / John Henry Merryman -- 6. The beautiful one has come - to return : the return of the bust of Nefertiti from Berlin to Cairo / Kurt G. Siehr -- 7. The beautiful one has come - to stay / Stephen K. Urice -- App. I. The bust of Nefertiti : an annotated bibliography / Tracy Musacchio -- App. II. A new translation of selected Egyptian antiquities laws (1881-1912) / Adrienne L. Fricke -- 8. Nagpra from the middle distance : legal puzzles and unintended consequences / Michael F. Brown and Margaret M. Bruchac -- 9. Finders keepers and deep American history : some lessons in dispute resolution / David Hurst Thomas
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cultural property -- Protection -- Law and legislation.
Restitution.
Art thefts.
Law and art.
Cultural property -- Repatriation.
Author Merryman, John Henry.
LC no. 2006040561
ISBN 0521859298 hardback
9780521859295