ISBN:
9781501720086
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Auslander, Leora Objects of War : The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
War and society
;
Pillage
;
Material culture
;
Personal belongings
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet the profession tends to be suspicious of things; words are its stock-in-trade. What new insights can historians gain
Abstract:
Objects of War -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Things They Carried: War, Mobility, and Material Culture -- Part I. States of Things: The Making of Modern Nation-States and Empires -- 1. The Honor of the Trophy: A Prussian Bronze in the Napoleonic Era -- 2. Colliding Empires: French Display of Roman Antiquities Expropriated from Postconquest Algeria, 1830-1870 -- 3. Pretty Things, Ugly Histories: Decorating with Persecuted People's Property in Central Bohemia, 1938-1958 -- Part II. People and Things: Individual Use of Things in Wartime -- 4. "Peeled" Bodies, Pillaged Homes: Looting and Material Culture in the American Civil War Era -- 5. Embodied Violence: A Red Army Soldier's Journey as Told by Objects -- 6. Small Escapes: Gender, Class, and Material Culture in Great War Internment Camps -- 7. The Bricolage of Death: Jewish Possessions and the Fashioning of the Prisoner Elite in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942-1945 -- Part III. Afterlives: From Things to Memories -- 8. Lisa's Things: Matching German-Jewish and Indian-Muslim Traditions -- 9. Circuitous Journeys: The Migration of Objects and the Trusteeship of Memory -- 10. Paku Karen Skirt-Cloths (Not) at Home: Forcibly Migrated Burmese Textiles in Refugee Camps and Museums -- Epilogue -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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