| Contents |
Introduction : engaging the materialities of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict / Nicholas J. Saunders -- Dead man's penny : a biography of the First World War bronze memorial plaque / Julie Dunne -- The poppy and the harp : contested meanings at the Oratory, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland / Niamh Keating -- The bare bones : body parts, bones, and conflict behaviour / Susannah Callow -- The diary of an American doughboy : interpreting a textual artefact of the First World War / Margaret N. Bagwell -- Picturing war : an intimate memorial to a lost soldier of the First World War / Matthew Leonard -- The battlefield in miniature, or, The multi-locational town of Messines / Martin Brown -- Remembering the doughboys : American memorials of the Great War / Charles D. Eavenson II -- Lone and captive far from home : gendered objects in Boer POW camps, Bermuda, 1901-2 / Deborah A. Atwood -- Mr Hopgood's shed : an archaeology of Bishop's Cannings wireless station / Cassie Newland -- Hitler loves Musso and other civilian wartime sentiments : the archaeology of Second World War air-raid shelters and their graffiti / Emily Glass. |
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The many faces of the Chaco War : indigenous modernity and conflict archaeology / Esther Breithoff -- Trees as a living museum : arborglyphs and conflict on Salisbury Plain / Chantel Summerfield -- Hadrian and the Hejaz railway : linear features in conflict landscapes / John B. Winterburn -- Churchill's silent sentinels : an archaeological spatial evaluation of Britain's Second World War coastal defences at Weymouth, Dorset, c.1940 / Philip R. Rowe -- Landmark, symbol, and monument : public perceptions of a cold war early warning site in Germany / Gunnar Maus -- America's nuclear wasteland : conflict landscape, simulation, and non-place at the Nevada test site / Liam Powell -- Signs, signals and senses : the soldier body in the trenches / Melanie Winterton -- Beneath the waves : the conflict seascape of the Baltic / Gabriella Soto -- Afterword / Paul Cornish. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 2012026114 |
| ISBN | 9781842174715 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1842174711 (pbk.) |
