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1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps |
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One world archaeology |
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One world archaeology.
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Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; About the Editors; 1 An Introduction to Archaeologies of Internment; The Experience of Internment; What is Internment?; What is the Current State of the Archaeology of Internment?; Disciplinary Contexts; What Can We Hope to Learn?; In This Book; Future Directions for the Archaeology of Internment; References; 2 Exceptional Space: Concentration Camps and Labor Compounds in Late Nineteenth-Century South Africa; Introduction; The First Camps: The 1886 Closed Labor Compounds; The Precedent of Concentration Camps and Labor Camps in Southern Africa |
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The Diamond Fields of South AfricaThe Birth of the Closed Compound on the Diamond Fields Circa 1886; From Barrack to Compound to Concentration Camp; Discussion; Conclusion; References; 3 A Tale of Two Treatments: The Materiality of Internment on the Isle of Man in World Wars I and II; Introduction; Disciplinary Context; The First World War; Douglas Camp; Knockaloe Camp; A Comparison of Douglas and Knockaloe; The Second World War; Conclusions; References; 4 The Archaeology of Internment in Francoist Spain (1936 -- 1952); Introduction: The Rationale of Spanish Internment Camps |
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From Camps to Prisons: The Institutional Typology of Franco's Internment CentersThe Material Culture of Totalitarianism; A Closer Look at the Camps: Ambiguous Domination/Ambiguous Resistance; Conclusion; References; 5 The Things of Auschwitz; Introduction; Ordinary Men; Deprivation and Abundance; The Primacy of Spoons; Informal Economy; The Ramp; The Kanadakommando; The Sonderkommando; Conclusion; References; 6 Gordon Hirabayashi, the Tucsonians, and the U.S. Constitution: Negotiating Reconciliation in a Landscape of Exile; Introduction: The Construction of the Catalina Highway |
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The Permanent PrisonWhat the Prisoners Accomplished; A Million Visitors a Year; Wartime Hysteria and Racial Prejudice; Justice Delayed and the Site Rediscovered; The Other Resisters; The Road to Reconciliation; Conclusion; References; 7 Control or Repression: Contrasting a Prisoner of War Camp and a Work Camp from World War Two; Introduction; Imprisonment and Prisoners of War; Second World War PoW Camps in Britain; Prisoner of War Camp Design; Deaconsbank/Camp 660; Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit (NOFU); Structural Differences between Deaconsbank and Macoul; Fear, Control, and Repression |
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ConclusionReferences; 8 Engraving and Embroidering Emotions Upon the Material Culture of Internment; Introduction; Recyclia and Internment Material Culture; Historical Background; Communal Living; Homesickness and Identity; Confinement by Barbed Wire; Pride, Defiance, and the V-Sign; Fighting Depression and Consuming Time; Sports and Theatre; Liberation and Repatriation; Conclusion; References; 9 Archaeological Investigations of Second World War Prisoner of War Camps at Fort Hood, Texas; Introduction; Archival Research; Physical Description of Camp Hood According to Archival Sources |
| Summary |
The internment of civilian and military prisoners became an increasingly common feature of conflicts in the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Prison camps, though often hastily constructed and just as quickly destroyed, have left their marks in the archaeological record. Due to both their temporary nature and their often sensitive political contexts, places of internment present a unique challenge to archaeologists and heritage managers. As archaeologists have begun to explore the material remains of internment using a range of methods, these interdisciplinary studies have demonstra |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Internment camps -- History
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Archaeology.
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Archaeology
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archaeology.
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Sciences sociales.
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Droit.
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Sciences humaines.
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Archaeology
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Internment camps
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Myers, Adrian
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Moshenska, Gabriel.
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| ISBN |
9781441996664 |
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1441996664 |
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