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Military landscapes / Anatole Tchikine and John Dean Davis, editors

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Textes issus de communications, présentés lors du colloque 'Military Landscapes,' tenu à "the Dumbarton Oaks research library and collection, à Washington, D.C., les 4 et 5 mai 2018"

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Introduction: Military landscapes between militarization and representation / Anatole Tchikine, with John Dean Davis Part I. Representation: Military landscapes landscapes of events / Antoine Picon The ancient regional defense system in Fenghuang, China / Zhang Jie "Unified, nationwide, indestructible" command, control, and the construction of the nuclear battlefield / Daniel Volmar Part II. Scales of nature: Displaced persons' gardens / Kenneth I. Helphand and Henk Wildschut The fortifications of Uncle Toby and other peaceful uses of military landscapes / John Dixon Hunt Transboundary natures from the Iron Curtain to the Green Belt / Astrid M. Eckert Part III. Gender and race: The home front as a military landscape imperial Russia, 1914-17 / Christine Ruane Olmsted in the South, Olmsted at war / John Dean Davis The concept of "defense landscape" (Wehrlandschaft) in National Socialist landscape planning / Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn Part IV. Infrastructure: The Wars of Religion and the Canal du Midi / Chandra Mukerji An environmental history of the Ho Chi Minh trail / Pamela McElwee Part V. Memorialization: Jacques Callot's siege landscapes / Peter Parshall Military memory maneuvers in Dublin's Phoenix Park, 1775-1820 / Finola O'Kane Smashed to the earth documenting, remembering, and returning to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack site / Patrick R. Jennings

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La 4e de couv. indique : "Among the various human interventions in landscape, war has left one of the most lasting and eloquent records, literally inscribed on the face of the earth. Military landscapes can assume different forms and functions; yet, by controlling vision and movement, they impose shared strategies of seeing upon geography and the environment. Built around such fundamental concepts as representation, scale, nature, gender, and memory, Military Landscapes seeks to reevaluate the role of militarization as a fundamental factor in human interaction with land. Moving beyond discussions of infrastructure, battlefields, and memorials, it foregrounds the representational role of military landscapes across different historical periods, geographical regions, and territorial scales, covering a wide range of subjects, including the home front and refugee camps. It contributes to scholarship by shifting the focus to often overlooked factors, such as local knowledge, traditional technology, and physical labor, highlighting the historical character of militarized environments as inherently gendered and racialized. By juxtaposing and synthesizing diverse disciplinary perspectives, this volume seeks to develop a more inclusive and nuanced definition of military landscapes under the framework of landscape theory, based on their understanding as a physical reality as well as a cultural construction."

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