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Prisoners of War

Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment

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Editors:
  1. Harold Mytum

    1. , Centre for Manx Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  2. Gilly Carr

    1. CAMBRIDGE CB2 1RL, United Kingdom

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Prisoner of War Archaeology

      • Harold Mytum, Gilly Carr
      Pages 3-19

  3. Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Experiences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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  5. Twentieth-Century Britain and Europe: Military Prisoners of War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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  7. Twentieth-Century Britain and Europe: Civilian Prisoners of War

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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  9. Twentieth-Century Japanese-American Civilian North America

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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  10. Twentieth-century Japanese-American Civilian North America

    1. “Life in Manzanar Where There Is a Spring Breeze”: Graffiti at a World War II Japanese American Internment Camp

      • Jeffery F. Burton, Mary M. Farrell
      Pages 239-269
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About this book

The archaeology of war has revealed evidence of bravery, sacrifice, heroism, cowardice, and atrocities. Mostly absent from these narratives of victory and defeat, however, are the experiences of prisoners of war, despite what these can teach us about cruelty, ingenuity, and human adaptability. The international array of case studies in Prisoners of War restores this hidden past through case studies of PoW camps of the Napoleonic era, the American Civil War, and both World Wars. These bring to light wide variations in historical and cultural details, excavation and investigative methods used, items found and their interpretation, and their contributions to archaeology, history and heritage. Illustrated with diagrams, period photographs, and historical quotations, these chapters vividly reveal challenges and opportunities for researchers and heritage managers, and revisit powerful ethical questions that persist to this day. Notorious and lesser-known aspects of PoW experiences that are addressed include: Designing and operating an 18th-century British PoW camp. Life and death at Confederate and Union American Civil War PoW camps. The role of possessions in coping strategies during World War I. The archaeology of the ‘Great Escape’ Experiencing and negotiating space at civilian internment camps in Germany and Allied PoW camps in Normandy in World War II. The role of archaeology in the memorial process, in America, Norway, Germany and France Graffiti, decorative ponds, illicit saké drinking, and family life at Japanese American camps As one of the first book-length examinations of this fascinating multidisciplinary topic, Prisoners of War merits serious attention from historians, social justice researchers and activists, archaeologists, and anthropologists.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Centre for Manx Studies, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Harold Mytum

  • CAMBRIDGE CB2 1RL, United Kingdom

    Gilly Carr

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

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