03166nam 2200637 450 991080618780332120230803203457.01-906509-57-31-906509-56-5(CKB)3710000000167898(EBL)1727850(SSID)ssj0001327074(PQKBManifestationID)11723146(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001327074(PQKBWorkID)11265494(PQKB)11481359(MiAaPQ)EBC1727850(Au-PeEL)EBL1727850(CaPaEBR)ebr10890216(CaONFJC)MIL926202(OCoLC)883568218(EXLCZ)99371000000016789820140717h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe history of loot and stolen art from antiquity until the present day /Ivan Lindsay2nd ed.London, England :Unicorn Press Ltd,2014.©20141 online resource (665 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-906509-21-2 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Frontispiece; Publisher information; Acknowledgments; Principal players; Body matter; Preface; Introduction; 1 - Ancients, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Moors and Charlemagne; 2 - The Crusades and the sack of Constantinople; 3 - The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Renaissance and the dissolution of the monasteries; 4 - Spanish colonisation of the Americas, Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes; 5 - Sir Francis Drake; 6 - The emergence of Sweden; 7 - Cromwell's disposal of the collections of Charles I; 8 - Napoleon; 9 - Greece and Lord Elgin10 - Egypt ; 11 - The British Museum and punitive expeditions against Ashanti and Benin; 12 - World War II, Hitler, Goering and the other Nazi leaders; 13 - 1945, the Soviets and Stalin; 14 - 1945, the US Army; 15 - 1945-2009; Conclusion; Back matter; Bibliography; Also availableThe author of this enthralling book aims to present a well-illustrated and documented alternative history of the Western World through graphic accounts of looting and art theft from the time of Sargon, ruler of Syria in 721 BC, to the present day. Almost all the principal players included appear on the stage of World history and many of them are known as conquerors, confiscators (the old-fashioned word for looters) and ruthless administrators of the regions they created as a result of their ...Art theftsArt theftsHistoryPillageHistoryArt treasures in warHistoryArt thefts.Art theftsHistory.PillageHistory.Art treasures in warHistory.364.16287Lindsay Ivan1685855MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806187803321The history of loot and stolen art4058309UNINA