The Heritage of War

The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting the modes by which governments, communities, and individuals claim validity for their own experiences of war, and the meanings they attach to them.

Introduction. The Heritage of War: Agency, Contingency, Identity Part I: Remembering and Representing War 1. Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum, Thai-Burma Railway 2. Victory and defeat at Ði¿n Biên Ph¿: memory and memorialization in Vietnam and France 3. War monuments in East and West Berlin: Cold War symbols or different forms of memorial? 4. 'Inevitable erosion of heroes and landmarks': an end to the politics of Allied war memorials in Tarawa? 5. Commemorating the American Civil War in National Park Service battlefields Part II: Identities 6. 'Our ancestors the Incas:' Andean warring over the conquering pasts 7. 'We are talking about Gallipoli after all': contested narratives, contested ownership and the Gallipoli Peninsula 8. Narrating genocide on the streets of Kigali 9. Remembering and forgetting: South Asia and the Second World War Part III: The politics of reconstruction 10. Reconstruction over ruins: rebuilding Dresden's Frauenkirche 11. Symbols of reconstruction, signs of divisions. The case of Mitrovica, Kosovo 12. Reconstruction as exclusion: Beirut