| Description |
1 online resource (155 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Copyright information; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; PART ONE; Chapter 1; Introduction; Space and Place; Landscapes of Conflict; This Study; IBAP -- The International Brigades Archaeology Project; Outline of Chapters; Chapter 2; The Spanish Civil War; The Founding of the International Brigades; A Chronology of the Spanish Civil War; PART TWO; Chapter 3; On Trenches and Field Fortifications; Trench Systems as Architecture; How Trench Systems Worked; The Western Front in Flanders and France; The Russo-Japanese War; The Spanish Civil War |
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ConclusionChapter 4; Trench Systems as Settlement Archaeology: The Salient at Mediana de Aragón; Topography of the Region of the Mediana Lines; 2014 and 2015 Landscape Surveys of the Mediana Lines; Field Methodology; Feature Coding; Shelters; Fighting Positions; On Fieldwork, Data Collection and 'Para-empiricism'; Satellite Imagery Analysis of the 2014 and 2015 Landscape Survey Areas; Mapping the Mediana Survey Areas; Towards an Anatomy of the Mediana Lines; Provisional Architectures in Opposition; The Disposition of the Nationalist Defences: 2015 Survey Area -- the 'Parapet of Death' |
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The Structure of the Nationalist Defences: 2015 Survey Area -- the 'Parapet of Death'The Republican Trenches; The Disposition of the Republican Defences: 2014 and 2015 Survey Areas; The Structure of the Republican Defences: 2015 Survey Area -- the 'Parapet of Death'; The Structure of the Republican Defences: 2014 Survey Area -- South of the 'Parapet of Death'; Republican Defences: 2014 Survey Area -- 'Little Gallipoli'; Mediana Revisited -- 2017; Conclusion -- A 'Geometric Personality'; PART THREE; Chapter 5; Experiencing the Mediana Lines; George Orwell at the Front; Concusion; Chapter 6 |
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An Archaeology From Photographs: Imaging the Aragón FrontThe ALBA Harry Randall and Moscow Archive Collections; Mise-en-Scène; Sampling the ALBA Collections -- Selection and Analysis; Images of Field Occupation -- Zones in the Republican Rear; Access to the Rear; Valley Occupation in the Rear; Free Standing Shelters; Looking Inside; Images of Occupation at or Near the Front -- Republican Trenches; Digging-in; Entrenched; Fighting Positions; In-line Entrenched Shelters; Hill Top Locations -- Nationalist Shelters; Conclusion; Chapter 7; History in 'Three Dimensions' |
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Settling into a Martial 'Anthropocosmos'A Hint of Hierarchy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Appendix; Tables |
| Summary |
This volume is an archaeological exploration of the conflict landscapes encountered by volunteers of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). This research draws, not only on the techniques of landscape archaeology, but also on the writings of international volunteers in Spain - in particular, George Orwell |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Spain
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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| SUBJECT |
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Antiquities
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Spain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789691354 |
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9781789691351 |
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