Landscapes of the Western Front

Materiality During the Great War

Ross Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-80805-7 (ISBN)

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This book examines the material and physical environment of the British soldiers on the Western Front (1914-1918) and analyses the formation of a ‘sense of place’ within the violent, unpredictable war landscape.

This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable environment. Drawing upon recent developments within First World War Studies and the anthropological examination of the fields of conflict, an ethnohistorical perspective of the soldiers is built which details the various ways soldiers responded to the physical and material world of the Western Front. This study is also grounded in the wider debates on how the First World War is remembered within Britain and offers an alternative perspective on the individuals who fought in the world’s first global conflagration nearly a century ago.

Ross Wilson is a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past in the Department of History, University of York, UK. He has research interests in the fields of heritage, landscapes, material culture and cultural representation. His doctoral research (York, 2008) focused on the battlefields of the Western Front (1914-1918) and the manner in which they have been portrayed and remembered through the memorial landscape, historiography, literature, film and archaeology.

1. Introduction 2. Representing the Western Front: Locating the Individual 3. The Western Front, 1914-1918 4. Behind the Lines 5. In the Trenches 6. The Materials of War 7. Conclusions Bibliography Index

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Modern European History
Zusatzinfo	7 Tables, black and white; 25 Halftones, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	640 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-415-80805-7 / 0415808057
ISBN-13	978-0-415-80805-7 / 9780415808057
Zustand	Neuware