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Battlefields from Event to Heritage (Hardcover)
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Battlefields from Event to Heritage (Hardcover)
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What is - or makes a place - a 'historic battlefield'? From one
perspective the answer is simple - it is a place where large
numbers of people came together in an organised manner to fight one
another at some point in the past. Yet from another perspective it
is far more difficult to say. Why any such location is a place of
battle rather than any other kind of event, and why it is
especially historic, is hard to identify. This book sets out an
answer to the question of what a historic battlefield is in the
modern imagination, drawing upon examples from prehistory to the
20th century. Treating battles as events in the past and
battlefields as places in the present, this book exposes the
complexity of the concept of a historic battlefield and how it
forms part of a Western understanding of the world. Taking its lead
from new developments in battlefield study, especially
archaeological approaches, it establishes a means by which these
new approaches can contribute to a more radical thinking about war
and conflict, especially to Critical Military and Critical Security
studies. The book goes beyond the study of battles as separate and
unique events to consider what they mean to us and why we need them
to have particular characteristics. It will be of interest to
archaeologists, historians, and students of modern war in all its
forms.
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