Matters of Conflict: Material Culture, Memory and the First World War

ISBN-13: 9780415280549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str.

Nicholas J. Saunders

Opis

This book looks at the vast and varied material legacy of the First World War. From trench art and postcards to prosthetic limbs, unexploded ordinance and war memorials, it examines the continuing and constantly changing significance of the conflict through the things it left behind. The diverse contributions span anthropology, archaeology, cultural history, museology and art history, bringing conceptual unity and coherence to a previously compartmentalized subject. Matters of Conflict sets a new agenda for the study of the First World War and ultimately of all twentieth-century conflict.

Spis treści

1. Materialities of Conflict: The Great War, 1914-2003  2. Art, Material Life and Disaster: Civilian and Military Prisoners of War  3. 'Sacred Relics': Objects in the Imperial War Museum 1917-1939  4. Prostheses and Propaganda: Materiality and the Human Body in the Great War  5. 'Nagelfiguren': Nailing Patriotism in Germany 1914-18  6. Shattered Experiences - Recycled Relics: Strategies of Representation and the Legacy of the Great War  7. The Great War Re-remembered: The Fragmentation of the World's Largest Painting  8. Death and Material Culture: The Case of Pictures during the First World War  9. A Material Link Between War and Peace: World War One Silk Postcards  10. Thanks for the Memory: War Memorials, Spectatorship and the Trajectories of Commemoration 1919-2001  11. The Lion, the Angel and the War Memorial: Some French sites re-visited  12. The Internet and the Great War: The impact on the making and meaning of Great War history  13. The Ocean Villas Project: Archaeology in the Service of European Remembrance  14. Aftermath: Materiality on the Home Front, 1914-2001

O autorze

Nicholas J Saunders was formerly British Academy Senior Research Fellow investigating the anthropology of the First World War. He is currently Lecturer in Material Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London.