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1 online resource (xvii, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-298) and index. |
| Summary |
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. 0The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museum, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Museums -- Acquisitions. |
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Museums -- Acquisitions -- Europe, Western -- History.
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Western Europe. |
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History. |
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Museums -- Acquisitions -- Case studies.
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Bronzes -- Nigeria -- Benin (Kingdom)
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Bronzes. |
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Nigeria. |
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hicks, Dan, 1972- Brutish Museums. London : Pluto Press, 2020 0745341764 (OCoLC)1133126193 |
| ISBN |
9781786806833 (electronic book) |
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1786806835 (electronic book) |
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9781786806840 (epub book) |
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1786806843 (epub book) |
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0745341764 |
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9780745341767 |
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