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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788481403321

Titolo

Bastions and barbed wire [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Tony Pollard and Iain Banks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Boston [Mass.], : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-283-06135-X

90-474-2706-8

9786613061355

90-04-17360-9

Descrizione fisica

ix, 250 p. : ill., maps

Collana

Brill eBook titles 2009

Altri autori (Persone)

PollardTony

BanksIain <1963->

Disciplina

355.4

Soggetti

Battlefields - History

Military archaeology

Battles - History

Excavations (Archaeology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Also published as volume four of the Journal of conflict archaeology"--P. facing t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A detailed study of the effectiveness and capabilities of 18th century musketry on the battlefield / N.A. Roberts ... [et al.] -- An archaeological study of Talamanca battlefield / Xavier Rubio Campillo -- Remembering the Charge of the Light Brigade : its commemoration, war memorials and memory / Gavin Hughes & Jonathan Trigg -- Fortified homesteads : the architecture of fear in frontier South Australia and the Northern Territory, ca. 1847-1885 / Nicolas K. Grguric -- Landscapes of the Battle of the Bulge : WW2 field fortifications in the Ardennes forests of Belgium / David G. Passmore & Stephan Harrison -- Archaeological investigation of military sites on Inchkeith Island / Tony Pollard & Iain Banks -- War and place : landscapes of conflict and destruction in prehistory / James E. Snead -- The archaeology of the Seige of Leith, 1560 / Tony Pollard -- The archaeology of the Seige of Fort William, 1746 / Tony Pollard -- Between memory and materiality : an archaeological approach to



studying the Nazi concentration camps / Adrian T. Myers -- Book review. The deadly politics of giving : exchange and violence at Ajacan, Roanoke, and Jamestown, by Seth Mallios.

Sommario/riassunto

Various papers on the archaeology of conflict, including battlefield archaeology. The main focus of the volume is confinement, as expressed by a wide variety of contexts. Most obviously these include Nazi concentration camps, which are in need of credible archaeological attention (the editorial points out the dangers of the misappropriation of archaeological and scientific techniques by Holocaust deniers). Other forms of confinement are examined in papers focussing on the archaeology of island defences and siege sites, with the sieges of Leith from 1650 and of Fort William from 1646 both recently being subject to archaeological investigation. Other contributions include a study of shell holes and field defences from the battle of the Bulge (1944).