Hicks, Dan,  1972- <br/><br/>
The brutish museums :  the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution / 
Dan Hicks. 
 - Paperback edition. 
 - xxii, 345 pages, 16 pages of colour plates :  illustrations (colour) 
<br/><br/> First published in 2020. Paperback edition (with new preface) published 2021. 
<br/><br/>A gun that shoots twice -- A theory of taking -- Necrography -- White projection -- World War Zero -- Corporate-militarist colonialism -- War on terror -- The Benin-Niger-Soudan expedition -- The sacking of Benin City -- Democide -- Iconoclasm -- Looting -- Necrology -- 'The Museum of Weapons, etc.' -- Chronopolitics -- A declaration of war -- A negative movement -- Ten thousand unfinished events -- Afterword : a decade of returns -- Appendix 1 : provisional list of the worldwide locations of Benin plaques looted in 1897 -- Appendix 2 : provenance of Benin objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (the 'First Collection') -- Appendix 3 : sources of Benin objects in the former Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham (the 'Second Collection') -- Appendix 4 : current location of Benin objects previously in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection) -- Appendix 5 : a provisional list of museums, galleries and collections that may currently hold objects looted from Benin City in 1897. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780745346229 9780745341767 9781786806833 9781786806840 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Museums--Acquisitions--History.--Europe, Western<br/>Museums--Acquisitions--Case studies.<br/>Bronzes--Nigeria--Benin (Kingdom)<br/>Benin Punitive Expedition, Nigeria, 1897.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Nigeria--History--1851-1899.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>069.4