The Compensations of Plunder

“A very important contribution to the history of collecting in the new context of nationalism in China and in the West . . . innovative and engaging.” — American Historical Review From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely regarded as stolen from their countries of origin, and demands for their repatriation grow louder by the day. In The Compensations of Plunder , Justin M. Jacobs brings to l