The book that changed the conversation on the contemporary museum

List of PlatesPrefacePreface to the Paperback Edition1. The Gun That Shoots Twice2. A Theory of Taking3. Necrography4. White Projection5. World War Zero6. Corporate-Militarist Colonialism7. War on Terror8. The Benin-Niger-Soudan Expedition9. The Sacking of Benin City10. Democide11. Iconoclasm12. Looting13. Necrology14. 'The Museum of Weapons, etc.'15. Chronopolitics16. A Declaration of War17. A Negative Moment18. Ten Thousand Unfinished EventsAfterword: A Decade of ReturnsAppendix 1: Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations Of Benin Plaques Looted in 1897Appendix 2: Provenance of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (the 'First Collection')Appendix 3: Sources of Benin Objects in the Former Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham (the 'Second Collection')Appendix 4: Current Location of Benin Objects Previously in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection')Appendix 5: A Provisional List of Museums, Galleries and Collections that May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897NotesReferencesIndex