Objects of war : the material culture of conflict and displacement /

Objects of war : the material culture of conflict and displacement / edited by Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

The honor of the trophy : a Prussian bronze in the Napoleonic era / Colliding empires : French display of Roman antiquities expropriated from post-conquest Algeria (1830-1870) / Pretty things, ugly histories : decorating with persecuted people's property in central Bohemia, 1938-1958 / Peeled bodies, pillaged homes : looting and material culture in the American Civil War era / Embodied violence : a Red Army soldier's journey as told by objects / Gender, class and material culture in Great War internment camps / The bricolage of death : Jewish possessions and the fashioning of the prisoner elite in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942-1945 / Lisa's things : matching Jewish-German and Indian-Muslim traditions / The migration of objects and the trusteeship of memory / Paku Karen skirt-cloths (not) at home : forcibly migrated Burmese textiles in refugee camps and museums / Alice Goff -- Bonnie Effros -- Cathleen M. Giustino -- Sarah Jones Weicksel -- Brandon Schechter -- Iris Rachamimov -- Noah Benninga -- Gerdien Jonker -- Jeffrey Wallen and Aubrey Pomerance -- Sandra Dudley.

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



9781501720086

2017051679


War and society.
Pillage.
Material culture.
Personal belongings.


Electronic Books.

HM554 / .O254 2018