The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites: Method and Topic

ISBN 10: 1603442073 / ISBN 13: 9781603442077

Published by Texas A&M University Press, 2010

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Synopsis:

The recent work of anthropologists, historians, and historical archaeologists has changed the very essence of military history. While once preoccupied with great battles and the generals who commanded the armies and employed the tactics, military history has begun to emphasize the importance of the “common man” for interpreting events. As a result, military historians have begun to see military forces and the people serving in them from different perspectives. The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites has encouraged efforts to understand armies as human communities and to address the lives of those who composed them. Tying a group of combatants to the successes and failures of their military commanders leads to a failure to understand such groups as distinct social units and, in some instances, self-supporting societies: structured around a defined social and political hierarchy; regulated by law; needing to be supplied and nurtured; and often at odds with the human community whose lands they occupied, be they those of friend or foe. The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites will afford students, professionals dealing with military sites, and the interested public examples of the latest techniques and proven field methods to aid understanding and conservation of these vital pieces of the world’s heritage.

About the Author: Lawrence E. Babits is George Washington Professor of History and Director of the Program in Maritime Studies at East Carolina University. He is author of Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens. Joshua B. Howard is research historian at the North Carolina Office of Archives and History. Babits and Howard previously collaborated on the book Fortitude and Forbearance: The North Carolina Continental Line in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites...
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: very_good