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J. K. Kitchen, Joan-Pau Rubiés, Keith Neilson, Joan Maria Thomàs, Carl Cavanagh Hodge, David Sheinin, Michael Barnett, Jean-Marc Coicaud, Stephanie Moser, Charles C. Pentland, Roland Popp, Hector Mackenzie, David Lockwood, Pierre Razoux, Ivan T. Berend, Chris Wrigley, Sam Willis, James Muldoon, Steven E. Sidebotham, Lesley Morden, Paula Sutter Fichtner, John R. Hébert, John Fisher, Jonathan M. Hess, Francesco Boldizzoni, Andrew David, Anne Salmond, Ian K. Steele, W. J.R. Gardner, I. C. Campbell, E. Jane Errington, Helen Meller, Neville Thompson, Marshall C. Eakin, Charles Jeurgens, Birthe Kundrus, Eric T. Jennings, Ian F.W. Beckett, Elizabeth Greenhalgh, David Harkness, Jonathan Rosenberg, Hiroaki Kuromiya, Michael Jabara Carley, Martin Kitchen, Jürgen Buchenau, Adam Claasen, Norman J.W. Goda, Robert M. Citino, Brian Masaru Hayashi, Barak Kushner, Roger Daniels, Lauren Derby, James I. Matray, Onn Winckler, Philip Robins, Stuart Macintyre, Nguyen Thi Dieu, Thomas Alan Schwartz, Bruce J. Berman, Richard C. Thornton, Donald Denoon, Peter Andreas, David P. Calleo, Marco Zambotti, Daniel Woolf, John P. Entelis, Jeremi A. Suri, David Day, and David E. Apter
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Cultural Studies ,History ,Battle ,Cultural property ,Sociology and Political Science ,Argument ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Inheritance ,Humanities ,Classics ,media_common ,Nationalism - Abstract
This is a polemical book that maintains an age-old argument frequently cited in the debates concerning ownership of the past. As a museum professional with a wealth of experience, James Cuno confidently asserts his belief in the 'encyclopaedic museum' concept, where museums are seen as institutions that display collections of antiquities as representative examples of the world's artistic legacy. Threats to the encyclopaedic museum, in the form of laws concerning the return of cultural property, deeply concern Cuno, and his fervent belief in the idea that antiquities are the common inheritance of all peoples leads him to challenge the nationalist claims on heritage by modern nation-states.
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- 2010
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