Imperial Spoils
978-0-8090-4189-3
Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles is a 1987 book by Christopher Hitchens on the controversy surrounding the removal by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin of the Parthenon's sculptured friezes (which became known as the Elgin Marbles), and his subsequent sale of the Marbles to the British Museum. Hitchens examines the history of the artefacts and the question of whether they should be returned to Greece.
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Christopher Hitchens
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- Blood, Class, and Nostalgia
- The Missionary Position
- Prepared for the Worst
- No One Left to Lie To
- Unacknowledged Legislation
- Letters to a Young Contrarian
- The Trial of Henry Kissinger
- Why Orwell Matters
- A Long Short War
- Love, Poverty, and War
- Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
- Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography
- God Is Not Great
- Hitch-22
- Arguably
- Mortality
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- Hell's Angel
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger
- Peter Hitchens
- Hitchens's razor
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