Distributed for Unicorn Publishing Group
A History of Loot and Stolen Art
From Antiquity Until the Present Day
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Principal Players
Preface
Introduction
1. Ancients, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, Moors and Charlemagne
2. The Crusades and the sack of Constantinople
3. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD, the Renaissance and the dissolution of the monasteries
4. Spanish colonization of the Americas, Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes
5. Sir Francis Drake
6. The emergence of Sweden
7. Cromwell’s disposal of the collection of Charles I
8. Napoleon
9. Greece and Lord Elgin
10. 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index