ARGONAUT BOOKS

A thought-provoking examination of the allegedly immoral provenance of Western museum collections. Reviews In Plunder? How Museums Got Their Treasures, the historian Justin M. Jacobs sets out to upend this view . . . The strength of Mr. Jacobs's [polemic] is to remind us that the origins of great museum collections cannot be reduced to any one story.Wall Street Journal - Hugh EakinJacobs suggests in his lively and provocative Plunder?, not only is the great part of what's in our museums not the spoils of colonialist theft, it's there because at the time that these artefacts ...Read More