Material Culture and Modern Conflict
About the Book Series
The Material Culture and Modern Conflict series adopts a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to re-appraise the material legacy of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict around the world. It offers a radical departure in the study of modern conflict, proving a truly interdisciplinary forum that draws upon archaeology, anthropology, military and cultural history, art history, cultural geography, and museum and heritage studies.
The Archaeology of Mass Crimes: Nazi Extermination in Gdańsk Pomerania, Poland
1st Edition
By Dawid Kobiałka
April 14, 2026
This book explores the material traces of mass crimes committed by Nazi Germans in Gdańsk Pomerania, Poland, during the Second World War, offering a unique archaeological perspective on these atrocities and their enduring impact on social memory. This book is the first example of using an ...
First World War Remembrance and Battlefield Preservation: The Soča/Isonzo Front
1st Edition
By Alexander J. Potočnik
December 22, 2025
This book examines the remarkably preserved Soča/Isonzo Front battlefield, exploring how its material heritage has shaped World War I (WW1) remembrance across changing political regimes along the Italian-Slovenian border. It introduces the reader to how conflict landscapes function as independent ...
The Great War in the Alps: Archaeology of The Isonzo / Soča Front
1st Edition
By Uroš Košir
December 15, 2025
This book provides the first account of the Isonzo/Soča frontline through the multidisciplinary lens of modern conflict archaeology, offering unique insights into multilayered conflict landscapes of the Soča Front. Archaeological research into the sites of the Soča Front of the First World War in ...
Ambient History: Material Traces of World War II in Contemporary Warsaw
1st Edition
By Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska
September 30, 2025
Ambient History presents the role urban fabric plays in constructing the wartime history of Warsaw. It focuses on history embedded in matter and details the practices followed by municipal institutions, artists and historical reenactors who pull history out of the background through their actions. ...
An Archaeology of the Turkish War of Independence: Landscape and Time
1st Edition
By Ömer Can Aksoy
November 28, 2024
This book is about the conflict which resolved the Greek–Turkish War of 1919–1922: the Great Offensive. On 26 August 1922, the army of the GNA executed the Great Offensive against the Greek defence line extending from the Bay of Gemlik to the Meander River. The Turkish Forces split the Greek Army ...
A Materiality of Internment
1st Edition
By Gilly Carr
August 07, 2024
More than two thousand people from the British Channel Islands were deported to and interned in Germany during the Second World War, making up as many as 60% of all interned British citizens in occupied territory during this period. This book carries out an in-depth analysis of artwork, objects, ...
The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia: From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure
1st Edition
By Michael Hughes
September 25, 2023
Out of the numerous books and articles on the Third Reich, few address its material culture, and fewer still discuss the phenomenon of Nazi memorabilia. This is all the more surprising given that Nazi symbols, so central to sustaining Hitler’s movement, continue to live long after the collapse of ...
Archaeologies of Hitler’s Arctic War: Heritage of the Second World War German Military Presence in Finnish Lapland
1st Edition
By Oula Seitsonen
April 29, 2022
This book discusses the archaeology and heritage of the German military presence in Finnish Lapland during the Second World War, framing this northern, overlooked WWII material legacy from the nearly forgotten Arctic front as ‘dark heritage’ – a concrete reminder of Finns siding with the Nazis, ...
Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
1st Edition
By Gabriel Moshenska
March 31, 2021
How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second World Britain, focusing on objects and spaces such as gas masks, air raid shelters and bombed-out buildings. In their struggles to cope ...
Rediscovering the Great War: Archaeology and Enduring Legacies on the Soča and Eastern Fronts
1st Edition
Edited
By Uroš Košir, Matija Črešnar, Dimitrij Mlekuž
September 30, 2020
The Great War was a turning point of the twentieth century, giving birth to a new, modern, and industrial approach to warfare that changed the world forever. The remembrance, awareness, and knowledge of the conflict and, most importantly, of those who participated and were affected by it, altered ...
Decoding a Royal Marine Commando: The Militarized Body as Artefact
1st Edition
By Mark Burchell
June 30, 2020
With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals, artefacts and material culture that is consciously deployed in order to define and shape the institution both historically and going forward into an uncertain future. Drawing upon ...
The Poetics of Conflict Experience: Materiality and Embodiment in Second World War Italy
1st Edition
By Sarah De Nardi
June 28, 2018
Seventy years after the end of the Second World War we still do not fully appreciate the intensity of the lived experience of people and communities involved in resistance movements and subjected to German occupation. Yet the enduring conjunction between individuals, things and place cannot be ...