Keeping their marbles : how the treasures of the past ended up in museums... and why they should sta...
Keeping their marbles : how the treasures of the past ended up in museums... and why they should sta...
Keeping their marbles : how the treasures of the past ended up in museums... and why they should stay there / Tiffany Jenkins.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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G 2016/2128
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 369 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Content type
still image
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Great explorers and curious collectors -- The birth of the public museum -- Antiquity fever -- Cases of loot -- Museum wars -- Who owns culture? -- The rise of identity museums -- Atonement : making amends for past wrongs -- Burying knowledge : the fate of human remains -- Concluding thoughts.
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Publisher
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2016.
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Summary
For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and the Metropolitan in New York -- to name but a few -- can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. But all this came at a huge cost. From the Napoleonic...
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Keeping their marbles : how the treasures of the past ended up in museums... and why they should stay there / Tiffany Jenkins.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/2128
Record Identifier
74VKVpQxz6oX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVpQxz6oX
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ISBN
0199657599
9780199657599
DDC
069.5
MMS ID
991023988314502626
