**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

It now justifies export controls and government regulation and provides the background to moral claims to valuable works of art and architecture. The concept of cultural heritage evolved to preserve important objects and practices, in peacetime and during conflict. In this new edition of The Idea of Cultural Heritage, Derek Gillman provides an updated overview of both long-standing and more recent controversies over cultural things. In the last decade, these have been further charged not only by accelerating calls for the repatriation of materials from Western museums to countries of origin, but also by institutional acknowledgement of European colonisation, and the reimagination of displays at museums and historic sites.