The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, Hardcover - Dan Hicks

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompan...

The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museumPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Dan HicksIllustration(s): 4 Tables, black and whi...

A tragic and relevant chapter of British and African history

A tragic story of the British empire run amok and the plunder of great works of artPublisher: Oneworld PublicationsAuthor(s): Barnaby PhillipsNumbe...

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

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Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Alexander HermanNumber of pages: 104Collection: Hot Topics in the Art WorldPublication date: 202...

Responding to Human Trafficking provides a new framework for critical analyses of anti-trafficking and other rights-based and anti-violence interve...

Self-determined First Nations Museums and Colonial Contestation explores Indigenous practices of curation, object repatriation and cross-cultural c...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldIllustration(s): Text Boxes; Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Maps; Halftones, Black & White including Black & Wh...

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.

A comprehensive account of how Europeans have used violence to conquer, coerce and police in pursuit of imperialism and colonial settlement

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An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region's colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos e...

DescriptionThis is what we all learned in school: Pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. They had a rough start, but ultimately...

Publisher: Peter Lang LtdIllustration(s): 8 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 328Collection: New Comparative CriticismPublication date: 20...

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

Shakespeare in the World traces the reception histories and adaptations of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century, when his works became well-known ...

Stand alone novel from the author of the bestselling DCI Daley Series. Gangs of London meets The Sopranos. Terms of Restitution is a thrilling gang...

A lighthearted history series that tackles the questions that children really ask

The outstanding collection of European bronze scupltures formed by Peter Marino, which focuses especially on French and Italian bronzes of the High...

Discover the weird and wacky history of the kingdom of Benin!Publisher: Hachette Children's GroupAuthor(s): Tim CookeNumber of pages: 32Collection:...

Publisher: Vanderbilt University PressAuthor(s): Dana RushNumber of pages: 244Collection: Critical Investigations of the African DiasporaPublicatio...

Stand alone novel from the author of the bestselling DCI Daley Series. Gangs of London meets The Sopranos. Terms of Restitution is a thrilling gang...

A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus...

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich is home to both time and space: Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and the Prime Meridian. But have you ever stopped to a...

Explores Colombia's violent colonial history by examining three seventeenth-century historical accounts of the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day C...

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisa...

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Reducere. Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence, " this critical edition presents readers ...