Overview
- Contributes to historical archaeology by providing a globally wide-ranging comparative archaeological assessment of prisoner of war experience
- Provides a material dimension to the work of scholars within anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and military history
- Comprises a set of closely related archaeological case studies covering 19th-century and 20th-century prisoner of war internment across the globe
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology (CGHA, volume 1)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Introduction
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Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century experiences
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Twentieth-century Britain and Europe: Military POWs
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Twentieth-century Britain and Europe: Civilian POWs
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Twentieth-century Japanese-American Civilian North America
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Harold Mytum is the Director at the Centre for Manx Studies, in the Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, at the School of Histories, Languages, and Cultures, University of Liverpool, UK.
Dr Gilly Carr is a Fellow of St Catharine's College, a Member of the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, and is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prisoners of War
Book Subtitle: Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment
Editors: Harold Mytum, Gilly Carr
Series Title: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4166-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-4165-6Published: 14 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9637-4Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-4166-3Published: 14 September 2012
Series ISSN: 1574-0439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 342
Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Anthropology