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The Brutish Museums : the benin bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution / Dan Hicks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hicks, Dan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Museums.
- Museums--Acquisitions--Europe, Western--History.
- Museums--Acquisitions--Case studies.
- Bronzes--Nigeria--Benin (Kingdom).
- Bronzes.
- Museums--Acquisitions.
- History.
- Nigeria.
- Western Europe.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pluto Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Preface
- 1. The Gun That Shoots Twice
- 2. A Theory of Taking
- 3. Necrography
- 4. White Projection
- 5. World War Zero
- 6. Corporate-Militarist Colonialism
- 7. War on Terror
- 8. The Benin-Niger-Soudan Expedition
- 9. The Sacking of Benin City
- 10. Democide
- 11. Iconoclasm
- 12. Looting
- 13. Necrology
- 14. 'The Museum of Weapons, etc.'
- 15. Chronopolitics
- 16. A Declaration of War
- 17. A Negative Moment
- 18. Ten Thousand Unfinished Events
- Afterword: A Decade of Returns
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Appendix III
- Appendix IV
- Appendix V
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 02, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781786806833
- 1786806835
- Publisher Number:
- 99985811709
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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