ISBN:
9781501720086
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
32 b&w halftones
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Kriegsbeute
;
Trophäe
;
Krieg
;
Sachkultur
;
Andenken
;
Flüchtling
;
Europa
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 2015
;
Konferenzschrift 2015
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 about the past by thinking about things? A central object (and consequence) of modern warfare is the radical destruction and transformation of the material world. And yet we know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered.Objects of War illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement. Chapters consider theft and pillaging as strategies of conquest; soldiers' relationships with their weapons; and the use of clothing and domestic goods by prisoners of war, extermination camp inmates, freed people, and refugees to make claims and to create a kind of normalcy.While studies of migration and material culture have proliferated in recent years, as have histories of the Napoleonic, colonial, World Wars, and postcolonial wars, few have focused on the movement of people and things in times of war across two centuries. This focus, in combination with a broad temporal canvas, serves historians and others well as they seek to push beyond the written word.Contributors:Noah Benninga, Sandra H. Dudley, Bonnie Effros, Cathleen M. Giustino, Alice Goff, Gerdien Jonker, Aubrey Pomerance, Iris Rachamimov, Brandon M. Schechter, Jeffrey Wallen, and Sarah Jones Weicksel...
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DOI:
10.7591/9781501720086
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720086
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501720086
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