Beyond the dead horizon
Subtitle: studies in modern conflict archaeology
By: edited by Nicholas J. Saunders
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781842174715
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1939-1945; Military history; Archaeology and history; Military archaeology; Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : engaging the materialities of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict / Nicholas J. Saunders; title: Dead man's penny : a biography of the First World War bronze memorial plaque / Julie Dunne; title: The poppy and the harp : contested meanings at the Oratory, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland / Niamh Keating; title: The bare bones : body parts, bones, and conflict behaviour / Susannah Callow; title: The diary of an American doughboy : interpreting a textual artefact of the First World War / Margaret N. Bagwell; title: Picturing war : an intimate memorial to a lost soldier of the First World War / Matthew Leonard; title: The battlefield in miniature, or, The multi-locational town of Messines / Martin Brown; title: Remembering the doughboys : American memorials of the Great War / Charles D. Eavenson II; title: Lone and captive far from home : gendered objects in Boer POW camps, Bermuda, 1901-2 / Deborah A. Atwood; title: Mr Hopgood's shed : an archaeology of Bishop's Cannings wireless station / Cassie Newland; title: Hitler loves Musso and other civilian wartime sentiments : the archaeology of Second World War air-raid shelters and their graffiti / Emily Glass.; title: The many faces of the Chaco War : indigenous modernity and conflict archaeology / Esther Breithoff; title: Trees as a living museum : arborglyphs and conflict on Salisbury Plain / Chantel Summerfield; title: Hadrian and the Hejaz railway : linear features in conflict landscapes / John B. Winterburn; title: Churchill's silent sentinels : an archaeological spatial evaluation of Britain's Second World War coastal defences at Weymouth, Dorset, c.1940 / Philip R. Rowe; title: Landmark, symbol, and monument : public perceptions of a cold war early warning site in Germany / Gunnar Maus; title: America's nuclear wasteland : conflict landscape, simulation, and non-place at the Nevada test site / Liam Powell; title: Signs, signals and senses : the soldier body in the trenches / Melanie Winterton; title: Beneath the waves : the conflict seascape of the Baltic / Gabriella Soto; title: Afterword / Paul Cornish.