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Author Saunders, Nicholas J.
Title Contested Objects : Material Memories of the Great War
Publisher London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2009.
Copyright date ©2008.



Descript 1 online resource (334 pages)
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Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 'Just a boyish habit' . . .? British and Commonwealth war trophies in the First World War -- 2 Shaping matter, memories and mentalities: The German steel helmet from artefact to afterlife -- 3 The Great War 'Trench Club': Typology, use and cultural meaning -- 4 The journey back: On the nature of donations to the 'In Flanders Fields Museum' -- 5 'Brothers in Arms': Masonic artefacts of the First World War and its aftermath -- 6 Subversive material: African embodiments of modern war -- 7 Medals, memory and meaning: Symbolism and cultural significance of Great War medals -- 8 Distinguishing the uniform: Military heraldry and the British Army during the First World War -- 9 The consumer sphinx: From French trench to Parisian market -- 10 'The Returned Soldiers' Bug': Making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne -- 11 Exploring a language of grief in First World War headstone inscriptions -- 12 'P'raps I shall see you . . .': Recognition of loved ones in non-fiction film of the First World War -- 13 'A few broad stripes': Perception, deception and the 'Dazzle Ship' phenomenon of the First World War -- 14 Message and materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916-1917: My grandfather's diary, social commemoration and the experience of war. -- 15 Postcards from the past: War, landscape and place in Argonne, France -- 16 'Calculating the future': Panoramic sketching, reconnaissance drawing and the material trace of war -- 17 Archaeology of the Great War: The Flemish experience -- 18 'Slowly our ghosts drag home': Human remains from the Heidenkopf, Serre, Somme, France -- 19 Great War archaeology on the glaciers of the Alps -- 20 Training for trench warfare: The archaeological evidence from Salisbury Plain -- Index.
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ISBN 9781135256715 (electronic bk.)
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Author Saunders, Nicholas J.
Subject Antiquities - Social aspects.
Alt author Cornish, Paul.
Descript 1 online resource (334 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
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Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 'Just a boyish habit' . . .? British and Commonwealth war trophies in the First World War -- 2 Shaping matter, memories and mentalities: The German steel helmet from artefact to afterlife -- 3 The Great War 'Trench Club': Typology, use and cultural meaning -- 4 The journey back: On the nature of donations to the 'In Flanders Fields Museum' -- 5 'Brothers in Arms': Masonic artefacts of the First World War and its aftermath -- 6 Subversive material: African embodiments of modern war -- 7 Medals, memory and meaning: Symbolism and cultural significance of Great War medals -- 8 Distinguishing the uniform: Military heraldry and the British Army during the First World War -- 9 The consumer sphinx: From French trench to Parisian market -- 10 'The Returned Soldiers' Bug': Making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne -- 11 Exploring a language of grief in First World War headstone inscriptions -- 12 'P'raps I shall see you . . .': Recognition of loved ones in non-fiction film of the First World War -- 13 'A few broad stripes': Perception, deception and the 'Dazzle Ship' phenomenon of the First World War -- 14 Message and materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916-1917: My grandfather's diary, social commemoration and the experience of war. -- 15 Postcards from the past: War, landscape and place in Argonne, France -- 16 'Calculating the future': Panoramic sketching, reconnaissance drawing and the material trace of war -- 17 Archaeology of the Great War: The Flemish experience -- 18 'Slowly our ghosts drag home': Human remains from the Heidenkopf, Serre, Somme, France -- 19 Great War archaeology on the glaciers of the Alps -- 20 Training for trench warfare: The archaeological evidence from Salisbury Plain -- Index.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9781135256715 (electronic bk.)
Author Saunders, Nicholas J.
Subject Antiquities - Social aspects.
Alt author Cornish, Paul.

Subject Antiquities - Social aspects.
Descript 1 online resource (334 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 'Just a boyish habit' . . .? British and Commonwealth war trophies in the First World War -- 2 Shaping matter, memories and mentalities: The German steel helmet from artefact to afterlife -- 3 The Great War 'Trench Club': Typology, use and cultural meaning -- 4 The journey back: On the nature of donations to the 'In Flanders Fields Museum' -- 5 'Brothers in Arms': Masonic artefacts of the First World War and its aftermath -- 6 Subversive material: African embodiments of modern war -- 7 Medals, memory and meaning: Symbolism and cultural significance of Great War medals -- 8 Distinguishing the uniform: Military heraldry and the British Army during the First World War -- 9 The consumer sphinx: From French trench to Parisian market -- 10 'The Returned Soldiers' Bug': Making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne -- 11 Exploring a language of grief in First World War headstone inscriptions -- 12 'P'raps I shall see you . . .': Recognition of loved ones in non-fiction film of the First World War -- 13 'A few broad stripes': Perception, deception and the 'Dazzle Ship' phenomenon of the First World War -- 14 Message and materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916-1917: My grandfather's diary, social commemoration and the experience of war. -- 15 Postcards from the past: War, landscape and place in Argonne, France -- 16 'Calculating the future': Panoramic sketching, reconnaissance drawing and the material trace of war -- 17 Archaeology of the Great War: The Flemish experience -- 18 'Slowly our ghosts drag home': Human remains from the Heidenkopf, Serre, Somme, France -- 19 Great War archaeology on the glaciers of the Alps -- 20 Training for trench warfare: The archaeological evidence from Salisbury Plain -- Index.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Cornish, Paul.
ISBN 9781135256715 (electronic bk.)

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