Prisoners of War
Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment
The archaeology of war has revealed evidence of bravery, sacrifice, heroism, cowardice, and atrocities. Mostly absent from these narratives of victory and defeat, however, are the experiences of prisoners of war, despite what these can teach us about cruelty, ingenuity, and human adaptability.The international array of case studies in Prisoners of War restores this hidden past through case studies of PoW camps of the Napoleonic era, the American Civil War, and both World Wars. These bring to light wide variations in historical and cultural details, excavation and investigative methods used, items found and their interpretation, and their cont…
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Weitere Autoren: Carr, Gilly (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4614-4166-3
- EAN: 9781461441663
- Produktnummer: 18252569
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 342 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 10'777 KB
- Auflage: 2013
- Abbildungen: 10 schwarz-weiße Tabellen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Dr. Harold Mytum is the Director at the Centre for Manx Studies, in the Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, at the School of Histories, Languages, and Cultures, University of Liverpool, UK. Dr Gilly Carr is a Fellow of St Catharine's College, a Member of the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, and is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, UK.
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