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This book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching the First World War and its legacies.
List of contents
List of Figures
Series Introduction: Nicholas J Saunders and Paul Cornish.
Series Editors’ Preface: Paul Cornish and Nicholas J Saunders.
List of Contributors
Introduction: Uroš Košir, Matija Črešnar, Dimitrij Mlekuž.
Chapter 1: The Italian Front on the Soča (Isonzo): A British Officers’ military
tour in 1923. Michael Relph and Nicholas J Saunders.
Chapter 2: Aerial Photography in the Great War: Development in the Austro-Hungarian Airforce. Matjaž Ravbar.
Chapter 3: Digitising the Great War in 3D: The Remains of the Soča Front, Slovenia. Seta Štuhec and Uroš Košir.
Chapter 4: On the Border: Perspectives on Memory Landscapes between Slovenia
and Italy. Miha Kozorog.
Chapter 5: Constructing the Italian Border: The First World War in the East of
the Country. Sergio Zilli.
Chapter 6: Between tourism and oblivion: Rombon and Kolovrat - conflict
landscapes on the Soča Front, 1915-2017. Uroš Košir, Nicholas J. Saunders, Matija Črešnar, Gašper Rutar.
Chapter 7: Fortifying the Carpathians: Austro-Hungarian Defences in
contemporary Eastern Slovakia. Jiří Zubalík, Jakub Těsnohlídek, Jan Petřík, Richard Bíško, Martin Fojtík, Martin Vojtas, Jiří Kadlec, Libor Petr, Radim Kapavík, Peter Tajkov and Martin Drobňák.
Chapter 8: An Archaeology of 'No Man's Land': The Great War in Central
Poland. Anna Zalewska, Jacek Czarnecki.
Chapter 9: Archaeologies of memory – archaeologies of oblivion: The Great War
in south-eastern Poland. Kamil Karski, Tomasz Tokarczyk.
Chapter 10: First World War exhumations at Zdziary (south-east Poland):
An Anthropological perspective on soldiers' mass graves.
Joanna Rogóż.
Chapter 11: Legacies of the Soča Front - From Rubbish to Heritage (1915-2017). Uroš Košir.
Chapter 12: Immovable cultural heritage of the Soča Front: Legal protection and
conservation. Ernesta Drole.
Chapter 13: The Heritage of the Soča Front and Collective Memory. Marko Štepec.
Chapter 14: Heroes and little people: Modern museological approaches in
interpreting subjects of war - a perspective from the East.
Verena Perko.
Index
About the author
Uroš Košir is an archaeologist interested in modern conflict archaeology, mostly in the First and Second World War conflict landscapes of Slovenia and their numerous legacies, especially the material culture.
Matija Črešnar is assistant professor at the Department of Archaeology (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana), specializing initially in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Central and south-eastern Europe, with further interests in Landscape Archaeology, Conflict Archaeology and Protection of Cultural Heritage. He is also a conservator at the Centre for Preventive Archaeology (Institute for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of Slovenia).
Dimitrij Mlekuž currently works at the Centre for Preventive Archaeology as a landscape archaeologist specialised in remote sensing, and as an assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana where he teaches courses on landscape archaeology, geographical information systems and remote sensing.
Summary
This book combines papers from different study fields that present interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches towards researching the First World War and its legacies.
