|
|
books
| book details |
Battlefields from Event to Heritage
By (author) John Carman, By (author) Patricia Carman
|
| on special |
normal price: R 4 781.95
Price: R 4 303.95
|
| book description |
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.
| product details |
Normally shipped |
Publisher | Oxford University Press
Published date | 23 Apr 2020
Language |
Format | Hardback
Pages | 280
Dimensions | 223 x 145 x 22mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 486g
ISBN | 978-0-1988-5746-4
Readership Age |
BISAC | social science / archaeology
| other options |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normally shipped |
Readership Age |
Normal Price | R 4 870.95
Price | R 4 383.95
| on special |
|
|
To view the items in your trolley please sign in.
| sign in |
|
|
|
| specials |
|
|
|
Mason Coile
Paperback / softback
224 pages
was: R 520.95
now: R 468.95
|
A terrifying locked-room mystery set in a remote outpost on Mars.
|
|
An epic love story with the pulse of a thriller that asks: what would you risk for a second chance at first love?
|
|
|
|
