Bodies in conflict corporeality, materiality and transformation / [electronic resource] : edited by Paul Cornish and Nicholas J. Saunders. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014. - 1 online resource (xix, 228 p.) : ill.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Dan Todman -- Introduction / Nicholas J. Saunders and Paul Cornish -- 1. Unlawful wounding : Codifying interaction between bullets and bodies / Paul Cornish -- 2. Bodies in Trees : A matter of being in Great War landscapes / Nicholas J. Saunders -- 3. The Black male body in the White imagination during the First World War / Richard Smith -- 4. Men in pain : Silence, stories and soldiers' bodies / Ana Carden-Coyne -- 5. Bringing the dead home : Repatriation, illegal repatriation and expatriation of British bodies during and after the First World War / Dominiek Dendooven -- 6. White graves and Natives : The Imperial War Graves Commission in East and West Africa, 1918-1939 / Michele Barrett -- 7. Material culture and the "after-care" of disabled soldiers in Britain during the Great War / Jeffrey Reznick -- 8. Exposing those who bury the dead : A new perspective in Modern Conflict Archaeology / Stephanie Spars -- 9. Lost and found in Flanders Fields : An anthropological and archaeological study of human remains from the A19 Project, Ypres, Belgium / Pedro Pype and Janiek De Gryse -- 10. Token scraps of men : White lies, weighted coffins, and Second World War air-crash casualties / Gabriel Moshenska -- 11. Concentration camp uniform as a tool of subjugation and a symbol of the Holocaust / James Taylor / James Taylor -- 12. In their shoes : Conservation and at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum / Helen Evans -- 13. Absent Bodies : The fate of the vanquished in the Spanish Civil War / Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal -- 14. Warrior bodies in ambiguous conflict : Remembering Vietnam with Blackfeet memories / Sarah Farman -- 15. "My closest enemy" / Khaled Al-Berry -- 16. Skilful movements : The evolving Commando / Mark Burchell.

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Human body--Social aspects.
Material culture.
Memory--Social aspects.
Military archaeology.
Military art and science--Technological innovations.
Military history, Modern--20th century.
Military history, Modern--21st century.
War and society.