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Matériel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human remains. This collection of essays, from an international range of contributors, illustrates the diversity in this material record, highlights the difficulties and challenges in preserving, presenting and interpreting it, and above all demonstrates the significant role matériel culture can play in contemporary society. Among the many studies are: * the 'culture of shells' * the archaeology of nuclear testing grounds * Cambodia's 'killing fields' * the Berlin Wall * and the biography of a medal *the reappearance of Argentina's 'disappeared' *World War II concentration camps. eBook available with sample pages: 0203165748
Materiel culture encompasses the material remains of conflict, from
buildings and monuments to artefacts and militia, as well as human
remains. This collection of essays, from an international range of
contributors, illustrates the diversity in this material record,
highlights the difficulties and challenges in preserving,
presenting and interpreting it, and above all demonstrates the
significant role materiel culture can play in contemporary society.
Among the many studies are: * the 'culture of shells' * the
archaeology of nuclear testing grounds * Cambodia's 'killing
fields' * the Berlin Wall * and the biography of a medal *the
reappearance of Argentina's 'disappeared' *World War II
concentration camps.
The works of C.S. Lewis have a wide appeal to a variety of
audiences. Lewis is probably most famous for the best-selling The
Chronicles of Narnia, although William Nicholson's Shadowlands will
have led many readers to Lewis's own account of his tragic
bereavement in A Grief Observed. However, Shadowlands represents
only a small part of Lewis's controversial life, and omits much
that is crucial to an understanding of this fascinating, and in
some ways tormented, personality. Lewis enjoyed (to the chagrin of
his academic colleagues) a tremendous success as a popular
theologian. He was also a successful science fiction writer. And
last, but by no means least, he was a brilliant and original
academic in the field of English Studies. This book weaves together
the very different elements in the complex phenomenon of C.S Lewis,
and relates the central concerns of Lewis's life and work to
current thinking about postmodernism, psychoanalysis and the idea
of 'a new Humanism'.
More than most writers, Robert Louis Stevenson requires a Literary
Life. Fascination with Stevenson's life (the 'Stevenson biography'
is almost a minor genre) has tended to eclipse his literary
achievement. This study focuses on Stevenson's writing practice
within the different geographical, cultural and political contexts
that shaped it, from Scotland to the South Seas. Following
Stevenson's own views on biography, the book is not structured
primarily in terms of chronology, but is more a kind of literary
geography than traditional literary history.
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Travels in Western Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, 20, and 21 - From the River Gambia, Through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the River Niger (Hardcover)
William Gray; Created by XXX Surgeon Dochard
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Travels in Western Africa, in the Years 1818, 19, 20, and 21 - From the River Gambia, Through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the River Niger (Paperback)
William Gray; Created by XXX Surgeon Dochard
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Discovery Miles 8 090
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