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Contested objects : material memories of the Great War / Nicholas J. Saunders and Paul Cornish (editors).

Contributor(s): Publication details: London ; Routledge, 2009.Description: xx, 311 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415450706
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D523. C639 2009
Contents:
ntroduction / Nicholas J. Saunders and Paul Cornish -- "Just a boyish habit" . . .? British and Commonwealth war tropies in the Frirst World War / Paul Cornish -- Shaping matter, memories and mentalities : the German steel helmet from artefact to afterlife / Fabio Gygi -- The Great War "trench club" : typology, use and cultural meaning / Daniel Phillips -- The journey back : on the nature of donations to the "In Flanders Fields Museum" / Dominiek Dendooven -- "Brothers in arms" : masonic artefacts of the First World War and its aftermath -- Mark J. R. Dennis -- Subversive material : African embodiments of modern war / Richard Waller -- Medals, memory and meaning : symbolism and cultural significance of Great War medals / Matthew Richardson -- Distinguishing the uniform : military heraldry and the British Army during the First World War / Alan Jeffreys -- The consumer sphinx : from French trench to Parisian market / Gulya Isyanova -- "The returned soldiers' bug": making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne / Catherine Moriarty -- Exploring a language of grief in First World War headstone inscriptions / Sonia Batten -- "P'raps I shall see you . . ." : recognition of loved ones in non-fiction film of the First World War / Roger Smither -- "A few broad stripes" : perception, deception and the "Dazzle Ship" phenomenon of the First World War / Jonathan Black -- Message and materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916-1917 : my grandfather's diary, social commemoration and the experience of war / John Schofield -- Postcards from the past : war, landscape and place in Argonne, France / Paola Filippucci -- "Calculating the future" : panoramic sketching, reconnaissance drawing and the material trace of war / Paul Gough -- Archaeology of the Great War : the Flemish experience / Marc Dewilde and Nicholas J. Saunders -- "Slowly our ghosts drag home" : human remains from the Heidenkopf, Serre, Somme, France / Martin Brown -- Great War archaeology on the glaciers of the Alps / Marco Balbi -- Training for trench warfare : the archaeological evidence from Salisbury Plain / Graham Brown and David Field
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Book-Circulating Book-Circulating Fischer Hall Library Main shelves D523. C639 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Purchased with the support of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. B005762
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ntroduction / Nicholas J. Saunders and Paul Cornish -- "Just a boyish habit" . . .? British and Commonwealth war tropies in the Frirst World War / Paul Cornish -- Shaping matter, memories and mentalities : the German steel helmet from artefact to afterlife / Fabio Gygi -- The Great War "trench club" : typology, use and cultural meaning / Daniel Phillips -- The journey back : on the nature of donations to the "In Flanders Fields Museum" / Dominiek Dendooven -- "Brothers in arms" : masonic artefacts of the First World War and its aftermath -- Mark J. R. Dennis -- Subversive material : African embodiments of modern war / Richard Waller -- Medals, memory and meaning : symbolism and cultural significance of Great War medals / Matthew Richardson -- Distinguishing the uniform : military heraldry and the British Army during the First World War / Alan Jeffreys -- The consumer sphinx : from French trench to Parisian market / Gulya Isyanova -- "The returned soldiers' bug": making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne / Catherine Moriarty -- Exploring a language of grief in First World War headstone inscriptions / Sonia Batten -- "P'raps I shall see you . . ." : recognition of loved ones in non-fiction film of the First World War / Roger Smither -- "A few broad stripes" : perception, deception and the "Dazzle Ship" phenomenon of the First World War / Jonathan Black -- Message and materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916-1917 : my grandfather's diary, social commemoration and the experience of war / John Schofield -- Postcards from the past : war, landscape and place in Argonne, France / Paola Filippucci -- "Calculating the future" : panoramic sketching, reconnaissance drawing and the material trace of war / Paul Gough -- Archaeology of the Great War : the Flemish experience / Marc Dewilde and Nicholas J. Saunders -- "Slowly our ghosts drag home" : human remains from the Heidenkopf, Serre, Somme, France / Martin Brown -- Great War archaeology on the glaciers of the Alps / Marco Balbi -- Training for trench warfare : the archaeological evidence from Salisbury Plain / Graham Brown and David Field