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Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There
Keeping Their Marbles How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums And Why They Should Stay There
Author: Tiffany Jenkins
For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and the Metropolitan in New York -- to name but a few -- can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. — But all this came at a huge cost. From the Napoleo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199657599
ISBN-10: 0199657599
Publication Date: 5/1/2016
Pages: 368
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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