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1 online resource (334 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of figures; List of contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1 'Just a boyish habit' . . .? British and Commonwealth war trophies in the First World War; 2 Shaping matter, memories and mentalities: The German steel helmet from artefact to afterlife; 3 The Great War 'Trench Club': Typology, use and cultural meaning; 4 The journey back: On the nature of donations to the 'In Flanders Fields Museum'; 5 'Brothers in Arms': Masonic artefacts of the First World War and its aftermath; 6 Subversive material: African embodiments of modern war |
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7 Medals, memory and meaning: Symbolism and cultural significance of Great War medals8 Distinguishing the uniform: Military heraldry and the British Army during the First World War; 9 The consumer sphinx: From French trench to Parisian market; 10 'The Returned Soldiers' Bug': Making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne; 11 Exploring a language of grief in First World War headstone inscriptions; 12 'P'raps I shall see you . . .': Recognition of loved ones in non-fiction film of the First World War |
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13 'A few broad stripes': Perception, deception and the 'Dazzle Ship' phenomenon of the First World War14 Message and materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916-1917: My grandfather's diary, social commemoration and the experience of war.; 15 Postcards from the past: War, landscape and place in Argonne, France; 16 'Calculating the future': Panoramic sketching, reconnaissance drawing and the material trace of war; 17 Archaeology of the Great War: The Flemish experience; 18 'Slowly our ghosts drag home': Human remains from the Heidenkopf, Serre, Somme, France |
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19 Great War archaeology on the glaciers of the Alps20 Training for trench warfare: The archaeological evidence from Salisbury Plain; Index |
| Summary |
Contested Objects breaks new ground in the interdisciplinary study of material culture. Its focus is on the rich and varied legacy of objects from the First World War as the global conflict that defined the twentieth century. From the iconic German steel helmet to practice trenches on Salisbury Plain, and from the 'Dazzle Ship' phenomenon through medal-wearing, diary-writing, trophy collecting, the market in war souvenirs and the evocative reworking of European objects by African soldiers, this book presents a dazzling array of hitherto unseen worlds of the Great War. The innovative and multidi |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Antiquities
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects
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Material culture.
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Historic sites.
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Collective memory.
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Antiquities -- Social aspects -- Case studies
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War and society -- Case studies
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material culture (discipline)
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historic towns.
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historic sites.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Antiquities
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Collective memory
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Historic sites
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Material culture
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Social aspects
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War and society
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Saunders, Nicholas J
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Cornish, Paul
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| ISBN |
9781135256715 |
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1135256713 |
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9781135256708 |
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1135256705 |
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