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Violence taking place : the architecture of the Kosovo conflict / Andrew Herscher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herscher, Andrew, 1961-
- Series:
- Cultural memory in the present.
- Cultural memory in the present
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Destruction and pillage.
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
- Buildings--War damage--Kosovo (Republic).
- Buildings.
- Architecture and society--Kosovo (Republic).
- Architecture and society.
- Architecture and war--Kosovo (Republic).
- Architecture and war.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 198 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first history ever of violence against architecture as political violence, this book examines the case of the former Yugoslavia and the ways in which architecture is a site where power, agency, and ethnicity are constituted.
- Contents:
- A relic of the past, fast disappearing
- It is not only vandalism
- Warchitecture
- The right place : a supplement on the architecture of humanitarian war
- Reconstruction/redestruction
- Coda : the end of preservation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804776226
- 0804776229
- OCLC:
- 676688646
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