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Plunder? How Museums Got Their Treasures
Jacobs, Justin: Plunder? How Museums Got Their Treasures. London: 2024. 216 pages, 49 illustrations. Hardback. 21.6 x 13.8cms. At last a blast of common sense! Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that many of Western museums' treasures were acquired by imperialist plunder and theft. In a field ignored by contemporary museum critics, he re-examines the allegedly immoral provenance of Western collections over the past two and a half centuries.
At last a blast of common sense! Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that many of Western museums' treasures were acquired by imperialist plunder and theft. In a field ignored by contemporary museum critics, he re-examines the allegedly immoral provenance of Western collections over the past two and a half centuries.
