Historical Culture by Restitution?

[ open access ] Editors Thomas Sandkühlerr, Angelika Epple, and Jürgen Zimmerer discuss in this book how the demand for restitution of art treasures of colonial provenance raises fundamental and complex questions about the presence of the past in ethical, scientific, political, legal and aesthetic dimensions.

They concern art historians and museum professionals, cultural historians, historians of science, lawyers and history teachers as well as visitors to museums with colonial collections, who are made aware of the provenance of objects there.

This volume was a first attempt at illuminating the historio-cultural dimensions of the debate and bringing them to the attention of a broader public. German and international authors contributed essays.

The book is an English version of a 2021 German book.