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Matériel culture : the archaeology of twentieth-century conflict / edited by John Schofield, William Gray Johnson, and Colleen M. Beck.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: One world archaeology ; 44.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 328 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0203165748
  • 9780203165744
  • 0415233879
  • 9780415233873
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Matériel culture.DDC classification:
  • 930.1 22
LOC classification:
  • CC77.H5 M38 2002eb
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Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Series editors' foreword; Preface; Introduction: materiel culture in the modern world; Paradox in places: twentieth-century battlefield sites in long-term perspective; The ironic 'culture of shells' in the Great War and beyond; The battlefield of the Dukla Pass: an archaeological perspective on the end of the Cold War in Europe; The Salpa Line: a monument of the future and the traces of war in the Finnish cultural landscape.
Summary: Should we keep the physical evidence of conflicts and wars? This collection challenges our perception of cultural heritage, with essays investigating among others Cambodia, the Berlin Wall and concentration camps.
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Chiefly papers presented at the World Archaeological Congress, held Jan. 1999 in Cape Town, South Africa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Series editors' foreword; Preface; Introduction: materiel culture in the modern world; Paradox in places: twentieth-century battlefield sites in long-term perspective; The ironic 'culture of shells' in the Great War and beyond; The battlefield of the Dukla Pass: an archaeological perspective on the end of the Cold War in Europe; The Salpa Line: a monument of the future and the traces of war in the Finnish cultural landscape.

Should we keep the physical evidence of conflicts and wars? This collection challenges our perception of cultural heritage, with essays investigating among others Cambodia, the Berlin Wall and concentration camps.

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