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War and the Historic Environment : The Effect of Conflict from Front Line Ukraine to Historic Namibia, Hardback Book

War and the Historic Environment : The Effect of Conflict from Front Line Ukraine to Historic Namibia Hardback

Edited by Michael (University of Oxford, UK) Dawson

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This book explores how societies deal with the effects of war on the historic environment.

Written by historians, archaeologists, and conservation professionals, it offers a dramatic perspective on the war in Ukraine.

It reveals the truth behind the Kremlin’s ‘just war’ narrative and touches on the complex relationship between war, society and the historic environment with examples of heritage conservation, archaeology and political expediency from Europe to Namibia. Prompted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the first section ‘Frontline Ukraine’ examines the manipulation of history, the use of propaganda, and the decolonisation of Russian memorials in former Soviet states.

It highlights how illegal archaeological excavations, looting and the removal of museum collections beginning from seizure of Crimea in 2014 until the present day have contributed to an increasingly implausible Russian narrative which attempts to represent an imperial land grab as a ‘just war’.

In the second section ‘Aspects of War’, the authors provide a wider perspective, with chapters on the influence of film, the effect of war on conservation, forensic archaeology, the reconstruction of damaged or destroyed museums as well as the relationship between America and the Hague Convention. Topical and lucid, this volume will be beneficial to students and researchers of history, archaeology, politics and international relations.

The chapters in this book were originally published in The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice and are accompanied by an updated introduction and a new conclusion.

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