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1 online resource (509 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Notes; References; 1. Unlawful wounding: Codifying interaction between bullets and bodies; A technological revolution; The politics of wounding; Terminal ballistics; The morality of wounding; Notes; References; 2. Bodies in trees: A matter of being in Great War landscapes; Trees in the landscape; Trees for the spirit; Tree-made stuff: Senses and sensibilities; Memory trees; Concluding comments; Notes; References |
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3. The black male body in the white imagination during the First World WarIntroduction; The black body and plantation labour; Historical representations of the black soldier; White masculinity in the First World War; Black soldiers and the white imagination during the war; Black men in wartime Britain; Conclusion; Notes; References; Newspapers; Archives; 4. Men in pain: Silence, stories and soldiers' bodies; Tuning in to the voice of pain; The social environment of military medicine; Agency, counter narratives and therapeutic authority; Conclusion; Notes; References |
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5. 'Bringing the dead home': Repatriation, illegal repatriation and expatriation of British bodies during and after the First World WarDuring the war; At the close of the war; The exhumation and repatriation policy of the Imperial War Graves Commission; Protest against the IWGC's policy on exhumation and repatriation: The War Graves Association; Illegal repatriations; Another World War; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 6. 'White graves' and Natives: The Imperial War Graves Commission in East and West Africa, 1918-1939; Introduction; Imperial War Graves Commission policy on 'Natives' |
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East AfricaWest Africa; The IWGC and its history; Acknowledgements; References; 7. Material culture and the 'after-care' of disabled soldiers in Britain during the Great War; Matériel matters I: The workshops of St Dunstan's Hostel; Matériel matters II: The workshops of Queen Mary's Hospital and Shepherd's Bush; 'Sacred work'/sacred matériel/sacred memory; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 8. Exposing those who bury the dead: A new perspective in modern conflict archaeology; Introduction; Modelling the signatures of death and burial; Data review; Spain (SpnB; SpnO; SpnV; SpnVil) |
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Korea (Korea)Pakracka Poljana, Croatia (Croat); Bosanski Petrovac, Bosnia-Herzegovina (Bosnia); Kigali, Rwanda (Rwanda); Comparative normative datasets; Model and variables; Variables; Cemetery Type (CemType); Status (Status); Manner of Death (MoD); Mutilation (Mut); Body Positioning (BodPos); Grave Marker (Marker); Clothing (Cloth); Container (Contain); Grave Goods (GG); Miscellaneous Artefacts (Misc); Quantitative analysis: Neural networks; U-matrix visualisation; Self-Organizing Map results; U-matrix of all data; U-matrix of conflict-only data; Discussion; Conclusion; References |
| Summary |
Twentieth-century war is a unique cultural phenomenon and the last two decades have seen significant advances in our ability to conceptualize and understand the past and the character of modern technological warfare. At the forefront of these developments has been the re-appraisal of the human body in conflict, from the ethics of digging up First World War bodies for television programmes to the contentious political issues surrounding the reburial of Spanish Civil War victims, the relationships between the war body and material culture (e.g. clothing, and prostheses), ethnicity and identit |
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9. Lost and found in Flanders Fields: An anthropological and archaeological study of human remains from the A19 Project, Ypres, Belgium |
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Human body -- Social aspects.
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Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
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War and society.
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Military history, Modern -- 21st century.
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Material culture.
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Military art and science -- Technological innovations
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material culture (discipline)
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Human body -- Social aspects
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Material culture
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Memory -- Social aspects
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Military art and science -- Technological innovations
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Military history, Modern
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War and society
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saunders, Nicholas J
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| ISBN |
9781317916918 |
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1317916913 |
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