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1 online resource (417 pages) |
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Modern Conflict and the Senses- Front Cover; Modern Conflict and the Senses; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Foreword: the engagement of the senses; Notes; References; Introduction; Notes; References; PART I: Sensual landscapes; Chapter 1: Sensing war: concept and space in the Imperial War Museum's First World War Galleries; A war sensed; Transforming IWM London; Concept and space; A sense of history; A First World War sense-scape; The viscerality of artefacts; Conclusion; Notes; References |
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Chapter 2: Materiality, space and distance in the First World WarThe front line; The home front; Between two worlds; Note; References; Chapter 3: Assaulting the senses: life and landscape beneath the Western Front; The subterranean sensorium; Classification and analysis of First World War subterranean sensorial landscapes; Category A: Trenches, shell holes, mine craters and funk holes; Category B: Dugouts, souterraines and subways; Category C: Fighting tunnel systems; Notes; References; Chapter 4: The scent of snow at Punta Linke: First World War sites as sense-scapes, Trentino, Italy |
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The White WarThe Punta Linke Project; Archaeology and the senses; Modern conflict archaeology and the senses; Using senses to 'perceive' and 'feel' the war at Punta Linke; Memory lost? Smell!; Museum as smellscape; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Sensorial engagement in tourism experiences on the Western Front; The historical development of the senses and the 'the privileging of the eye'; Sensual engagement and heritage interpretation; The café-museum: a tactile setting; Commemoration: cemeteries, memorials and ceremonies; The landscape; The 'taste-less' Western Front |
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ConclusionNotes; References; Chapter 6: 'Dead air': the acoustic of war and peace -- creative interpretations of the sounds of conflict and remembrance; Jonty Semper and the sounds of silence; Katie Davies and invisible borders; Francis Alÿs and the geometry of sound; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Moaning Minnie and the Doodlebugs: soundscapes of air warfare in Second World War Britain; Introduction; Britain at war; Soundscapes and stories; Soundscapes of air warfare; 'Moaning Minnie' the air raid siren; Aero engines; Guns and bombs; V1 missiles; Discussion |
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AcknowledgementsReferences; Chapter 8: The Cave Mouth: listening to sound and voice in Okinawan war memory; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Emplacing the Italian Resistance: the dystopian fight against Fascism and Nazism (1943-1945); Reinstating the senses in a messy battlefield: the vibrant places of the Italian Resistance; They lost their landscapes, and then lost their way; The loss of the senses: displacement and blindness; Final considerations; References; PART II: Sensing bodies; Chapter 10: Odour and ethnicity: Americans and Japanese in the Second World War |
| Notes |
Analytical framework: olfaction and ethnicity |
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Print version record |
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Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
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War -- Psychological aspects -- History -- 20th century
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Senses and sensation -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
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War and society -- History -- 20th century
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Sociology, Military -- History -- 20th century
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Military history, Modern
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Senses and sensation -- Social aspects
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Sociology, Military
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War and society
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War -- Psychological aspects
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cornish, Paul
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| ISBN |
9781317402534 |
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1317402537 |
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