Nicholas J. (Hrsg.) Saunders

Modern Conflict and the Senses

Ebook (PDF Format)

Modern Conflict and the Senses investigates the sensual worlds created by modern war, focusing on the sensorial responses embodied in and provoked by the materiality of conflict and its aftermath. The volume positions the industrialized nature of twentieth-century war as a unique cultural phenomenon, in possession of a material and psychological intensity that embodies the extremes of human behaviour, from total economic mobilization to the unbearable sadness of individual loss. Adopting a coherent and integrated hybrid approach to the complexities of modern conflict, the book considers issues of memory, identity, and emotion through wartime… Mehr

CHF 47.05

Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)

Versandfertig innerhalb 1-3 Werktagen
Versandkostenfrei

Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Cornish, Paul (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-40253-4
EAN: 9781317402534
Produktnummer: 25388694
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'708 KB
Abbildungen: 73 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 6 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Nicholas J. Saunders is Professor of Material Culture at Bristol University and co-director of two long-term First World War projects: the 'Great Arab Revolt Archaeological Project' (Jordan), and the 'Isonzo Valley Conflict Landscapes Project' (Slovenia/Italy). He has published numerous articles and books on the archaeology and anthropology of modern conflict, including Trench Art: Materialities and Memories of War (2003), Matters of Conflict (2004), Killing Time: Archaeology and the First World War (2007), and co-edited with Paul Cornish Contested Objects (2009) and Bodies in Conflict (2014).Paul Cornish is Senior Curator at the Imperial War Museum, and played a leading role in the museum's Regeneration Project for the 2014 Centenary. He has co-organised five IWM-based international and multidisciplinary conferences on modern conflict, has published Machine Guns and the Great War (2009) and The First World War Galleries (2014), and co-edited Contested Objects (2009) and Bodies in Conflict (2014).