Review: Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures

Book review of Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures by Justin Jacobs. Reaktion Books Ltd., October 2024. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-78914-986-9 (h/c), $25.00. https://bookshop.org/p/books/plunder-how-museums-got-their-treasures-justin-m-jacobs/21203765. Reviewed January 2025 by Rebecca Price, Architecture, Urban Planning, and Visual Resources Librarian and Liaison to Museum Studies, University of Michigan Library, [email protected].

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Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
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2025-01-01
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https://doi.org/10.17613/mccsv-16w22
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Museums and Cultural Heritage
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Book review of Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures by Justin Jacobs. Reaktion Books Ltd., October 2024. 240 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-78914-986-9 (h/c), $25.00. https://bookshop.org/p/books/plunder-how-museums-got-their-treasures-justin-m-jacobs/21203765. Reviewed January 2025 by Rebecca Price, Architecture, Urban Planning, and Visual Resources Librarian and Liaison to Museum Studies, University of Michigan Library, [email protected].

Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
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