Objects of war : the material culture of conflict and displacement / edited by Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auslander, Leora, editor.

Zahra, Tara, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society.

Pillage.

Material culture.

Personal belongings.

Physical Description:

xii, 330 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Discusses the ways in which material culture affected and reflected how people grappled with social, cultural, and material upheavals during times of war"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The honor of the trophy : a Prussian bronze in the Napoleonic era / Alice Goff

Colliding empires : French display of Roman antiquities expropriated from post-conquest Algeria (1830-1870) / Bonnie Effros

Pretty things, ugly histories : decorating with persecuted people's property in central Bohemia, 1938-1958 / Cathleen M. Giustino

Peeled bodies, pillaged homes : looting and material culture in the American Civil War era / Sarah Jones Weicksel

Embodied violence : a Red Army soldier's journey as told by objects / Brandon Schechter

Gender, class and material culture in Great War internment camps / Iris Rachamimov

The bricolage of death : Jewish possessions and the fashioning of the prisoner elite in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942-1945 / Noah Benninga

Lisa's things : matching Jewish-German and Indian-Muslim traditions / Gerdien Jonker

The migration of objects and the trusteeship of memory / Jeffrey Wallen and Aubrey Pomerance

Paku Karen skirt-cloths (not) at home : forcibly migrated Burmese textiles in refugee camps and museums / Sandra Dudley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Objects of war.

ISBN:

9781501720079

1501720074

OCLC:

1008765930