ISBN:
9781501720079
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 330 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2018
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
War and society
;
Pillage
;
Material culture
;
Personal belongings
;
Europa
;
Kriegsbeute
;
Trophäe
;
Krieg
;
Sachkultur
;
Andenken
;
Flüchtling
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"Discusses the ways in which material culture affected and reflected how people grappled with social, cultural, and material upheavals during times of war"--
Note:
Introduction. The things they carried : war, mobility, and material culture
,
Part 1: States of things : the making of modern nation-states and empires. The honor of the trophy : a Prussian bronze in the Napoleonic era
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Colliding empires : French display of Roman antiquities expropriated from postconquest Algeria, 1830-1870
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Pretty things, ugly histories : decorating with persecuted people's property in central Bohemia, 1938-1958
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Part 2: People and things : individual use of things in wartime. "Peeled" bodies, pillaged homes : looting and material culture in the American Civil War era
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Embodied violence : a Red Army soldier's journey as told by objects
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Small escapes : gender, class, and material culture in Great War internment camps
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The bricolage of death : Jewish possessions and the fashioning of the prisoner elite in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942-1945
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Part 3: Afterlives : from things to memories. Lisa's things : matching German-Jewish and Indian-Muslim traditions
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Circuitous journeys : the migration of objects and the trusteeship of memory
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Paku Karen skirt-cloths (not) at home : forcibly migrated Burmese textiles in refugee camps and museums
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Epilogue
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