Battlefields From Event To Heritage

Author : John Carman,Patricia Carman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198857464

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Battlefields from Event to Heritage by John Carman,Patricia Carman Pdf

What is -- or makes a place -- a 'historic battlefield'? From one perspective the answer is simple -- it is a place where large numbers of people came together in an organised manner to fight one another at some point in the past. Yet from another perspective it is far more difficult to say. Why any such location is a place of battle rather than any other kind of event, and why it is especially historic, is hard to identify. This book sets out an answer to the question of what a historic battlefield is in the modern imagination, drawing upon examples from prehistory to the 20th century. Treating battles as events in the past and battlefields as places in the present, this book exposes the complexity of the concept of a historic battlefield and how it forms part of a Western understanding of the world. Taking its lead from new developments in battlefield study, especially archaeological approaches, it establishes a means by which these new approaches can contribute to a more radical thinking about war and conflict, especially to Critical Military and Critical Security studies. The book goes beyond the study of battles as separate and unique events to consider what they mean to us and why we need them to have particular characteristics. It will be of interest to archaeologists, historians, and students of modern war in all its forms.

Author : Keir Reeves,Geoffrey R. Bird,Laura James,Birger Stichelbaut,Jean Bourgeois
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317479000

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Battlefield Events by Keir Reeves,Geoffrey R. Bird,Laura James,Birger Stichelbaut,Jean Bourgeois Pdf

Battlefield Events: Landscape, Commemoration and Heritage is an investigative and analytical study into the way in which significant landscapes of war have been constructed and imagined through events over time to articulate specific narratives and denote consequence and identity. The book charts the ways in which a number of landscapes of war have been created and managed from an events perspective, and how the processes of remembering (along with silencing and forgetting) at these places has influenced the management of these warscapes in the present day. With chapters from authors based in seven different countries on three continents and comparative case studies, this book has a truly international perspective. This timely longitudinal analysis of war commemoration events, the associated landscapes, travel to these destinations and management strategies will be valuable reading for all those interested in war landscapes and events.

Author : John Carman,Patricia Carman
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752495385

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Bloody Meadows by John Carman,Patricia Carman Pdf

By investigating the sites of historical battlefields, this book shows that an insight can be developed into the minds of those who fought, and into some of our own expectations about war. It reveals differences in landscape type between battlefields from the tenth to nineteenth century in Britain, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal.

Author : Martin Gegner,Bart Ziino
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136673832

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The Heritage of War by Martin Gegner,Bart Ziino Pdf

The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting the modes by which governments, communities, and individuals claim validity for their own experiences of war, and the meanings they attach to them. From colonizing violence in South America to the United States’ Civil War, the Second World War on three continents, genocide in Rwanda and continuing divisions in Europe and the Middle East, these studies bring us closer to the very processes of heritage production. The Heritage of War uncovers the histories of heritage: it charts the constant social and political construction of heritage sites over time, by a series of different agents, and explores the continuous reworking of meaning into the present. What are the forces of contingency, agency and political power that produce, define and sustain the heritage of war? How do particular versions of the past and particular identities gain legitimacy, while others are marginalised? In this book contributors explore the active work by which heritage is produced and reproduced in a series of case studies of memorialization, battlefield preservation, tourism development, private remembering and urban reconstruction. These are the acts of making sense of war; they are acts that continue long after violent conflict itself has ended.

Author : Warwick Frost,Jennifer Laing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136691157

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Commemorative Events by Warwick Frost,Jennifer Laing Pdf

Commemorative Events emphasise remembering. They are held on the anniversaries of significant past events, either annually or after significant time periods. Commemorative events provide fascinating insight into how societies see themselves, their heritage and their identity. These events however carry high propensity for controversy as memory and identity are highly subjective and other stakeholders hold different views of what should be commemorated and why. This is the first book to provide an in - depth critical examination of commemorative events, particularly what they mean to societies and how they are used by governments as well as impacts on other stakeholders. The book fully explores these issues by reviewing all the major types of commemorative events including, nationhood or independence, wars, battles, famous people and cultural milestones from varying geographical regions and stakeholder perspectives. By doing so the book furthers understanding of these types of events in society as well as furthering knowledge of social and political uses and impacts of events. This thought provoking volume will be valuable reading for students, researchers and academics interested in events.

Author : David Miller,Ian Westwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1906347565

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Heritage Battlefields by David Miller,Ian Westwell Pdf

Heritage is a new series of highly pictorial books that provides a broad overview of a subject by combining a brief but erudite text with carefully chosen illustrations - historic and contemporary; maps and photographs. Author of the many books on military subjects including titles in the Spearhead series, Hitler Day by Day, and Seapower, Ian Westwell has selected a fascinating collection of images to portray the stories behind the battlefields of America including original maps from the Library of Congress and images of the battlefields today. After an Introduction that provides an overview of US-based military history of North America from the time of colonization through to date, twenty major battles are covered.

Author : William Arthur Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015032556527

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Canada's Military Heritage: Courage on the battlefield by William Arthur Bishop Pdf

Author : Jack Munroe
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1017520119

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Mopping Up! by Jack Munroe Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Geoffrey Bird,Sean Claxton,Keir Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Battlefields
ISBN : 1138592471

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Managing and Interpreting D-Day's Sites of Memory by Geoffrey Bird,Sean Claxton,Keir Reeves Pdf

The book examines the perspectives, experiences and insights of those who work in the field of war heritage in the region of Normandy where the D-Day landings and the Battle of Normandy occurred.

Author : R. Celeste Ray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004474013

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Highland Heritage by R. Celeste Ray Pdf

Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South

Author : Emma Waterton,Laurajane Smith
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215494175

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Taking Archaeology Out of Heritage by Emma Waterton,Laurajane Smith Pdf

Archaeology has, on the whole, tended to dominate the development of public policies and practices applicable to what is often referred to as â oeheritageâ . This book aims to examine the conflation of heritage with archaeology that has occurred as a result. To do so, it asks whether archaeology can usefully contribute to critical understandings of heritage, which, the volume contends, must consider heritage both in terms of what it is and the cultural, social and political work it does in contemporary societies. Archaeologists have been very successful in protecting what they perceive to be their databaseâ "a success that owes much to the development and maintenance of a suite of heritage management practices that work to legitimize their privileged access to, and control of, that database. However, is archaeological data actually heritage? Moreover, does archaeological knowledge offer a meaningful reflection of â oethe historic environmentâ , in terms of the uses, values and associations it carries for the various and different communities or publics that engage with that environment/heritage? The volume brings together academic and field archaeologists, academics from heritage studies and community activists from the UK and Europe more generally to debate these issues.

Author : Chris Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136427053

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Battlefield Tourism by Chris Ryan Pdf

Through a series of case studies that involve past conflict in China, the United States, The South Pacific and Europe, the nature of battlefield sites as tourist locations are explored. As places of past conflict and individual acts of heroism, these sites are places of story telling. How are these stories told? And for what purposes are the stories told? The acts and modes of interpretation are many, ranging from a discourse conducted through silences to the more complex nuanced story telling told through re-enactments of past battles. The book also asks where is the battle-field? - as case studies relate to conflicts that ranged over several hundreds of miles, to, on the other hand, acts of local civil disturbance that subsequently achieved mythic values in a history of national identity. The book is divided into 'acts', these being 'Acts of Resource Management', 'Acts of Silence', 'Acts of Discovery and Rediscovery', 'Acts of Imagination' and 'Acts of Remembrance' and embrace examples as diverse as an re-enactment of past battles on a New Zealand rural town cricket pitch to the towering strength of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, and from the Straits of Taiwan to the centre of Canada.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : UIUC:30112119150685

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Pennsylvania Heritage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2056 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN : NYPL:33433067456842

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New Jersey Session Law Service by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Brown County (Wis.)
ISBN : WISC:89064453921

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Voyageur by Anonim Pdf