Objects of War : : The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement /

Objects of War : : The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement / / ed. by Leora Auslander, Tara Zahra.

The book, 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.― Utah Public RadioHistorians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Auslander, Leora,
Benninga, Noah,
Dudley, Sandra H.,
Effros, Bonnie,
Giustino, Cathleen M.,
Goff, Alice,
Jones Weicksel, Sarah,
Jonker, Gerdien,
Pomerance, Aubrey,
Rachamimov, Iris,
Schechter, Brandon,
Wallen, Jeffrey,
Zahra, Tara,
HerausgeberIn:
Auslander, Leora,
Zahra, Tara,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (348 p.) :; 32 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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