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Hardcover Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin Book

ISBN: 178738456X

ISBN13: 9781787384569

Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin

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The famous Benin Bronzes are among the most prized possessions of the British Museum. Celebrated for their great beauty, they embody the history, myth and artistry of the ancient Kingdom of Benin, once the most powerful in West Africa and now part of Nigeria. But despite their renown, little has been written about the brutal act of imperial violence through which the Bronzes were plundered. This incisive new history tells that neglected story: the...

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