Military landscapes / Anatole Tchikine and John Dean Davis, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Tchikine, Anatole, editor.

Davis, John Dean, 1982- editor.

Conference Name:

“Military Landscapes” (Symposium) (2018 : Washington, D.C.), creator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military geography--History--Congresses.

Military geography.

War--Environmental aspects--Congresses.

War.

Armed Forces--Environmental aspects--Congresses.

Armed Forces.

Armed Forces--Environmental aspects.

War--Environmental aspects.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 360 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2021]

Summary:

"Among the various human interventions in landscape, war has left one of the most lasting and eloquent records, literally inscribed on the face of the earth. Military landscapes can assume different forms and functions; yet, by controlling vision and movement, they impose shared strategies of seeing upon geography and the environment. Built around such fundamental concepts as representation, scale, nature, gender, and memory, Military Landscapes seeks to reevaluate the role of militarization as a fundamental factor in human interaction with land. Moving beyond discussions of infrastructure, battlefields, and memorials, it foregrounds the representational role of military landscapes across different historical periods, geographical regions, and territorial scales, covering a wide range of subjects, including the home front and refugee camps. It contributes to scholarship by shifting the focus to often overlooked factors, such as local knowledge, traditional technology, and physical labor, highlighting the historical character of militarized environments as inherently gendered and racialized. By juxtaposing and synthesizing diverse disciplinary perspectives, this volume seeks to develop a more inclusive and nuanced definition of military landscapes under the framework of landscape theory, based on their understanding as a physical reality as well as a cultural construction"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Military landscapes between militarization and representation / Anatole Tchikine, with John Dean Davis

Part I. Representation: Military landscapes

landscapes of events / Antoine Picon

The ancient regional defense system in Fenghuang, China / Zhang Jie

"Unified, nationwide, indestructible"

command, control, and the construction of the nuclear battlefield / Daniel Volmar

Part II. Scales of nature: Displaced persons' gardens / Kenneth I. Helphand and Henk Wildschut

The fortifications of Uncle Toby and other peaceful uses of military landscapes / John Dixon Hunt

Transboundary natures

from the Iron Curtain to the Green Belt / Astrid M. Eckert

Part III. Gender and race: The home front as a military landscape

imperial Russia, 1914-17 / Christine Ruane

Olmsted in the South, Olmsted at war / John Dean Davis

The concept of "defense landscape" (Wehrlandschaft) in National Socialist landscape planning / Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn

Part IV. Infrastructure: The Wars of Religion and the Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji

An environmental history of the Ho Chi Minh trail / Pamela McElwee

Part V. Memorialization: Jacques Callot's siege landscapes / Peter Parshall

Military memory maneuvers in Dublin's Phoenix Park, 1775-1820 / Finola O'Kane

Smashed to the earth

documenting, remembering, and returning to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack site / Patrick R. Jennings.

Notes:

"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium 'Military Landscapes,' held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on May 4-5, 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780884024781

0884024784

OCLC:

1198018104