List of plates ix
Preface xii
1. The Gun That Shoots Twice 1
2. A Theory of Taking 18
3. Necrography 25
4. White Projection 37
5. World War Zero 49
6. Corporate-Militarist Colonialism 57
7. War on Terror 79
8. The Benin-Niger-Soudan Expedition 99
9. The Sacking of Benin City 109
10. Democide 115
11. Iconoclasm 128
12. Looting 135
13. Necrology 152
14. 'The Museum of Weapons, etc.' 166
15. Chronopolitics 178
16. A Declaration of War 194
17. A Negative Moment 209
18. Ten Thousand Unfinished Events 230
Afterword: A Decade of Returns 235
Appendix 1 Provisional List of the Worldwide Locations Of Benin Plaques Looted in 1897 243
Appendix 2 Sources of Benin Objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (the 'First Collection') 245
Appendix 3 Sources of Benin Objects in the former Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham ('the Second Collection') 246
Appendix 4 Current Location of Benin Objects previously in the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Farnham (the 'Second Collection') 247
Appendix 5 A Provisional List of Museums, Galleries and Collections that May Currently Hold Objects Looted from Benin City in 1897 248
Notes 253
References 280
Index 299