War and the Historic Environment (eBook, ePUB)

The Effect of Conflict from Front Line Ukraine to Historic Namibia
Redaktion: Dawson, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how societies deal with the effects of war on the historic environment. Written by historians, archaeologists, and conservation professionals, it offers a dramatic perspective on the war in Ukraine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040092989
• Artikelnr.: 70335207

Autorenporträt

Michael Dawson is the Editor of The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice , lectures in the Department of Continuing Education, and is a member of the common room at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK. He is a former Heritage Consultant at RPS and Chair of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologist. He has published widely including the recent 'Heritage Under Pressure', an important collection of papers looking at threats and solutions to conservation issues in the historic environment.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: War and the Historic Environment Part 1: Frontline Ukraine
1. The Fight for the Past: Contested Heritage and the Russian Invasion of
Ukraine 2. Empires of Lies? The Political Uses of Cultural Heritage in War
3. Russia was 'Doomed to Expand [its] Aggression' Against Ukraine: Cultural
Property Criminals' Responses to the Invasion and Occupation of the Donbas
Since 20th February 2014 4. Monumental Decisions: The Impact of the
Russo-Ukrainian War on Soviet War Memorials 5. Archaeological Monitoring in
War-Torn Ukraine Part 2: Aspects of War 6. A Reluctance Acceptance: the USA
and the Hague Convention of 1954 7. 'Heritage Under Fire': The Office of
Works and Historic Monuments in Wartime 8. Museums and Museumification in
Post-Conflict Contexts: Revisiting the Shaping of Architectural
Reconstruction Strategies 9. 'Lest We Forget': The Archaeology of Warfare,
Conservation, Interpretation, and Engagement in Hull and the East Riding of
Yorkshire 10. Empty Spaces, Buried Crimes: Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina
11. Mass Graves: The Forensic Investigation of the Deaths, Destruction and
Deletion of Communities and Their Heritage 12. Understanding Liminality and
Intangible Difficult Heritage through Film Conclusion