| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages :) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction : engaging the materialities of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict / Nicholas J. Saunders -- Dead man's penny : a biography of the First World War bronze memorial plaque / Julie Dunne -- The poppy and the harp : contested meanings at the Oratory, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland / Niamh Keating -- The bare bones : body parts, bones, and conflict behaviour / Susannah Callow -- The diary of an American doughboy : interpreting a textual artefact of the First World War / Margaret N. Bagwell -- Picturing war : an intimate memorial to a lost soldier of the First World War / Matthew Leonard -- The battlefield in miniature, or, The multi-locational town of Messines / Martin Brown -- Remembering the doughboys : American memorials of the Great War / Charles D. Eavenson II -- Lone and captive far from home : gendered objects in Boer POW camps, Bermuda, 1901-2 / Deborah A. Atwood -- Mr Hopgood's shed : an archaeology of Bishop's Cannings wireless station / Cassie Newland -- Hitler loves Musso and other civilian wartime sentiments : the archaeology of Second World War air-raid shelters and their graffiti / Emily Glass |
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The many faces of the Chaco War : Indigenous modernity and conflict archaeology / Esther Breithoff -- Trees as a living museum : arborglyphs and conflict on Salisbury Plain / Chantel Summerfield -- Hadrian and the Hejaz railway : linear features in conflict landscapes / John B. Winterburn -- Churchill's silent sentinels : an archaeological spatial evaluation of Britain's Second World War coastal defences at Weymouth, Dorset, c.1940 / Philip R. Rowe -- Landmark, symbol, and monument : public perceptions of a cold war early warning site in Germany / Gunnar Maus -- America's nuclear wasteland : conflict landscape, simulation, and non-place at the Nevada test site / Liam Powell -- Signs, signals and senses : the soldier body in the trenches / Melanie Winterton -- Beneath the waves : the conflict seascape of the Baltic / Gabriella Soto -- Afterword / Paul Cornish |
| Summary |
The new interdisciplinary study of modern conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade. Its anthropological approach to modern conflicts, their material culture and their legacies has freed such investigations from the straitjacket of traditional 'battlefield archaeology'. It offers powerful new methodologies and theoretical insights into the nature and experience of industrialised war, whether between nation states or as civil conflict, by individuals as well as groups and by women and children, as well as men of fighting age. The complexities of studying wars within living |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Military archaeology.
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Archaeology and history.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Antiquities
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Antiquities
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Military history -- 20th century
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Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
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historical archaeology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Antiquities
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Archaeology and history
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Military archaeology
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Military history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saunders, Nicholas J
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| ISBN |
9781842179444 |
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1842179446 |
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