The impact of uniform laws on the protection of cultural heritage and the preservation of cultural heritage in the 21st century

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Part I. International legal framework -- Cultural heritage protection : a story of several beginnings, or : The pre- UNESCO period -- Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (1954) -- UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970) -- Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (1972) -- UNIDROIT Convention on Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (1995) -- Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001) -- Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) -- Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005) -- Part II. National legal frameworks -- General issues -- Tangible cultural heritage -- Intangible cultural heritage -- Epilogue -- Table: Status of national ratification/Acceptance of international tools -- Canada / Robert K. Paterson -- Croatia / Igor Gliha and Tatjana Josipovic -- Czech Republic / Pavel Sturma -- Denmark / Ditlev Tamm and Anne Oestrup -- France / Marie Cornu -- Germany / Kurt Siehr -- Italy / Federico Lenzerini -- Japan / Toshiyuki Kono -- Mexico / Jorge Sanchez Cordero -- Netherlands / Katja Lubina -- New Zealand ; Aotearoa / Paul Myburgh -- Spain / Sofia de Salas -- Switzerland / Eva Maria Belser, Eva Ruegg and Eva Molinari -- Taiwan / Ming-Yan Shieh and Chung-Hsi Lee -- United States / James A. R. Nafziger.