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Further Suggestions on Specific Periods and Themes:

For analyses of Napoléon’s program to plunder Italy’s cultural glory see Patricia Mainardi, “Assuring the Empire of the Future,” Art Journal 48.2 (1989): 155–167; Jeanette Greenfield, “British and Other European Practice,” The Return of Cultural Treasures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 97–115; and Andrew McClellan, “The Revolutionary Louvre,” Inventing the Louvre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 91–123. McClellan also analyzes the importance of this set of works for the development of the Louvre as France’s national symbol and for France as a leader in art production. Another account of the plunder, somewhat more sympathetic to the French, is offered by Francis Haskell, Rediscoveries in Art: Some Aspects of Taste, Fashion, and Collecting in England and France (Ithaca, NY; Cornell University Press, 1976), 53–57.

On the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a tool for social control, political pacification, and national representation, see Calvin Tomkins, Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Henry Holt, 1989); also see Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino, Chasing Aphrodite: The hunt for looted antiquities at the world’s richest museum (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011).

For performance theory and its connection (or destruction) of cultural identity, see Edward Schieffelin, “Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality,” American Ethnologist 12.4 (1985): 707–724; Judith Butler, Excitable Speech (London: Routledge, 1997); Richard Schechner, Performance Theory (London: Routledge, 2003 [1977]); Keith Brown, “Macedonian Culture and Its Audiences,” in Ritual, Performance, Media, ed. Felicia Hughes-Freeland (London: Routledge, 1998), 160–176.

Scholarly inquiries into the emptying of the Iraq Museum that came out years after the fall of Baghdad provide information on the extent of the looting, the objects affected, and recovery efforts. See, for example, Milbry Polk and Angela Schuster, The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The lost legacy of ancient Mesopotamia (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005); Peter G. Stone, Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly, and Robert Fisk, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq, vol. 1 (London: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2008).

For a comparative perspective on looting and restoration efforts, see Jeanette Greenfield, The Return of Cultural Treasures (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996); G. J. Rickman, Conquest and Redemption: A history of Jewish assets from the Holocaust (New York: Transaction Books, 2006); E. Simpson, ed., The Spoils of War: World War II and Its Aftermath—The Loss, Reappearance and Recovery of Cultural Property (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997).