Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures by Justin M. Jacobs

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Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures by Justin M. JacobsISBN : 9781836391081 Publisher : Reaktion Books , 10 October 2024 Paperback , 240 pages A provocative reassessment of a popular narrative that connects museums, the antiquities trade, and theft. In this thought provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western museums treasures were acquired by imperialist plunder and theft. The account reexamines the allegedly immoral provenance of Western

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