History of loot and stolen art from antiquity until the present day / Ivan Lindsay.
- Lindsay, Ivan, 1962-
- Date:
- 2013
- Books
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Description
From the Ancients, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Moors and Charlemagne, the author traces how a lust for pride of ownership and power over the vanquished has driven conquerors, confiscators (the old-fashioned word for looters) and ruthless administrators to grab the valuable possessions of others.
Publication/Creation
London : Unicorn Press Ltd, 2013.
Physical description
424 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-401) and index.
Contents
1. Ancients, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Moors and Charlemagne -- 2. The Crusades and the sack of Constantinople -- 3. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD, the Renaissance and the dissolution of the monasteries -- 4. Spanish colonisation of the Americas, Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes -- 5. Sir Francis Drake -- 6.The emergence of Sweden -- 7.Cromwell's disposal of the collections of Charles I -- 8. Napoleon -- 9. Greece and Lord Elgin -- 10. Egypt -- 11. The British Museum and punitive expeditions against Ashanti and Benin -- 12. World War II, Hitler, Goering and the other Nazi leaders -- 13. 1945, the Soviets and Stalin -- 14. 1945, the US army -- 15. 1945 -- 2009.
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Location Status History of MedicineZH /LINOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 1906509212
- 9781906509217