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Cultural Property Internationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2005

John Henry Merryman
John Henry Merryman
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Stanford Law School. Email: Merry@law.stanford.edu
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Abstract

Cultural property internationalism is shorthand for the proposition that everyone has an interest in the preservation and enjoyment of cultural property, wherever it is situated, from whatever cultural or geographic source it derives. This article describes its historical development and its expression in the international law of war, in the work of UNESCO, and in the international trade in cultural objects and assesses the ways in which cultural-property world actors support or resist the implications of cultural property internationalism.

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International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 11 - 39
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© 2005 International Cultural Property Society

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