Plunder? How Museums Got Their Treasures

A riposte to the widely accepted belief that museum collections are illegitimately acquired.

About the author

Justin M. Jacobs is Professor of History at American University, Washington, DC. His books include The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures (2020).

Product details

• Authors: Justin M. Jacobs, Jacobs Justin M.
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.12.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781836391081
• ISBN: 978-1-83639-108-1
• Pages: 216
• Subjects: Parthenon, Napoleon, Howard Carter, Metropolitan Museum of Art, History, Ottoman Empire, Indiana Jones, HISTORY / General, Expeditions, British Museum, ART / Museum Studies, john d. rockefeller, The Met, Giovanni Belzoni, Heinrich Schliemann, Chiang Kai-shek, Enlightenment, imperialism, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Tourism industry, theft, Tutankhamun, cultural revolution, vandalism, Qing dynasty, Tang Dynasty, Excavations, Archaeologists, cultural continuity, aurel stein, Seti I, forbidden city, Benin Bronzes, Elgin marbles, Antiquities dealers, sarcophagus, Cleopatra's Needles, military plunder, Mogao caves, Duanfang bronzes, subsistence diggers, Mogao Grottoes, diplomatic gifts, diplomatic gifting, Song dynasty artefacts, Flinders Petrie, Albert von Le Coq, tomb raiding, Longmen Grottoes, Memnon Head, excavation laws, moai statues, Fellah, fellahin, native elites, Duanfang, religious relics, Paul Pelliot, Dunhuang manuscripts, Western archaeologists, artefact acquisition, Buddhist antiquities, criminalization discourse, Western elites, oracles bones, Egyptian elites, Egyptian obelisks, imperialist plunder, Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Priam's Treasure, Chinese elites, Hoa Hakananai'a, obelisks