Title & Author:

Architecture and armed conflict : the politics of destruction / edited by J.M. Mancini and Keith Bresnahan.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

Description:

xii, 219 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
[Table of Contents] -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Keith Bresnahan and J.M. Mancini -- PART I: ARCHITECTURAL DESTRUCTION IN CONTEMPORARY CONFLICTS -- 1. Architecture and dwelling in the 'War of Destruction' in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel -- 2. The case of Dubrovnik: UNESCO World Heritage Site under siege, 1991-92 / Darja Radović Mahečić -- PART II: REPRESENTING AND REPLICATING ARCHITECTURAL DESTRUCTION IN ANCIENT, EARLY MODERN, AND MODERN CONTEXTS -- 3. 'I burnt, razed (and) destroyed those cities': The Assyrian accounts of deliberate architectural destruction / Heather D. Baker -- 4. Remaking the Bastille: Architectural destruction and revolutionary consciousness in France, 1789-94 / Keith Bresnahan -- 5. Fine arts under fire: Life magazine and the display of architectural destruction / Melissa Renn -- PART III: ICONOCLASM AND ARCHITECTURAL DESTRUCTION -- 6. The destruction of Cheap Cross, London (1643) / Christine Stevenson -- 7. Inconoclasm and resistance: Wayside shrines in the struggle for Lithuanian independence / Milda B. Richardson -- 8. Dublin and its Georgian legacy: The battle for iconoclasm / Ramona Usher -- PART IV: FUTURE DESTRUCTION: THE FATE OF ARCHITECTURE IN POST-CONFLICT ENVIRONMENTS -- 9. Disciplining Delhi: The 1857 uprising and remodelling of the urban landscape / Jyoti Pandey Sharma -- 10. Anything goes: Architectural destruction in Northern Ireland after 'the Troubles' / Rita Harkin -- PART V: FROM DESTRUCTION TO RECONSTRUCTION -- 11. The politics of Burgundian Romanesque: Destruction and construction in Cluny and Mâcon during the nineteenth century / Janet T. Marquardt -- 12. Making history: The destruction and (re)construction of old Belgian towns during and after the First World War / Evert Vandeweghe -- 13. The use of ruins in postwar German church reconstruction / Kathleen James-Chakraborty -- Index.

Summary:

"Bringing together specialists from a range of relevant fields and drawing on a range of global case studies, this book provides the first synthetic body of research on the complex, multifaceted subject of architectural destruction in the context of conflict. Situated in a strong framework, the book addresses several key questions: How has the targeted destruction of buildings and landscapes been used as a deliberate technique of war, conquest, or armed liberation in recent conflicts? How have individuals, cultures, and states responded to the deliberate and collateral destruction of architecture? How have individuals, institutions, and states represented architectural destruction, and to what ends? What are the relationships between the destruction of architecture and the destruction of art, particularly iconoclasm? Does armed conflict engender further processes of architectural destruction that persist in post-conflict environments? What are the relationships between architectural destruction and processes of restoration, recreation or replacement? Considering multiple conflicts, multiple time periods, and multiple locations, this collection provides an essential primer for this crucial topic. "-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780415702492 (hardback)
0415702496 (hardback)
9780415702508 (paperback)
041570250X (paperback)
9781315766218 (ebk)
1315766213 (ebk)
1317659767
9781317659761
1317659759
9781317659754

Subject:

Architecture and war.
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Vandalism Political aspects.
Architecture et guerre.
Architecture Mutilation.
Vandalisme Aspect politique.
ARCHITECTURE / Historic Preservation / General.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Added entries:

Mancini, JoAnne Marie, 1968- editor.
Bresnahan, Keith, editor.

Politics of destruction

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288573
Call No.: BIB 230280
Notes: paperback
Status: Available