Objects of War

Leora Auslander is Professor of European Social History and Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Western Civilization at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Cultural Revolutions and Taste and Power. Tara Zahra is Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Kidnapped Souls, The Lost Children, and The Great Departure.

• Introduction.: The Things They Carried: War, Mobility,and Material Culture.Part I. States of Things:: The Making of ModernNation-States and Empires1. The Honor of the Trophy:: A Prussian Bronze in theNapoleonic Era2. Colliding Empires:: French Display of Roman Antiquities Expropriated from Postconquest Algeria, 1830–18703. Pretty Things, Ugly Histories:: Decorating with PersecutedPeople's Property in Central Bohemia, 1938–1958Part II. People and Things:: Individual Use of Things in Wartime4. "Peeled" Bodies, Pillaged Homes:: Looting and MaterialCulture in the American Civil War Era5. Embodied Violence:: A Red Army Soldier's Journey asTold by Objects6. Small Escapes:: Gender, Class, and Material Culture inGreat War Internment Camps7. The Bricolage of Death:: Jewish Possessions and the Fashioningof the Prisoner Elite in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942–1945Part III. Afterlives:: From Things to Memories8. Lisa's Things:: Matching Jewish-German and Indian-Muslim Traditions9. Circuitous Journeys:: The Migration of Objects andthe Trusteeship of Memory10. Paku Karen Skirt-Cloths (Not) at Home:: ForciblyMigrated Burmese Textiles in Refugee Camps and MuseumsEpilogue

In a feat rarely accomplished in an edited volume of such breadth, the chapters in Objects of War are in conversation with one another throughout the book. Together, the chapters make a compelling case to move beyond the battlefield and examine the objects so easily tossed aside by war.(Los Angeles Review of Books) Editors Leora Auslander and Tara Zahra have put together a collection of articles in Objects of War that each contain detailed analysis of material possessions and their significance during conflicts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Overall, this collection of essays is highly recommended for the scholarly audience. The editors have brought together a collection that show how objects are affected by people and vice-versa, when revolutions and large-scale armed conflicts displace populations.(Army University Press) The book, Objects of War, illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement.(Utah Public Radio)