The Return of Cultural Treasures - Softcover

Greenfield, Jeanette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521477468 ISBN 13: 9780521477468

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

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 Elgin Marbles. In this important and pioneering work, Jeanette Greenfield discusses the historical, legal and political issues surrounding a wide cross-section of cases. Extremely readable and highly illustrated, this updated, revised edition includes new chapters on art treasures and museums in post-Soviet Russia, claims to the Vatican for Hebrew manuscripts, and the saga of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

About this title

Book Description:

The return of cultural treasures to their homelands has become the subject of heated public debate in recent years. This updated, revised work includes new chapters on art treasures and museums in post-Soviet Russia, claims to the Vatican for Hebrew manuscripts, and the saga of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

About the Author:

Jeanette Greenfield is Australian and graduated from Melbourne and Cambridge Universities before taking her Ph.D. at Cambridge in international law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0521477468
• ISBN 13: 9780521477468
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 373