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Treasures in trusted hands : negotiating the future of colonial cultural objects /
This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries and contestable acquisitions by privat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden :
Sidestone Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | CLUES ;
number 3 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries and contestable acquisitions by private persons and other categories. Former colonies consider this as a historical injustice that has not been undone. Former colonial powers have kept most of the objects in their custody. In the 1970s the Netherlands and Belgium returned objects to their former colonies Indonesia and DR Congo; but their. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (290 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789088904417 9088904413 |