Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips

Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes

Barnaby Phillips

535 pages first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

nonfiction crime history politics emotional medium-paced
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In 1897, Britain responded to the killing of a group of officials by razing an empire to the ground. The men had been travelling to the ancient Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Nigeria, when they were ambushed and killed by local soldiers. Just si...

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