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Conflict Landscapes: An Archaeology of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
This book is an archaeological exploration of a conflict landscape encountered by the volunteers of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39. A great deal is known about the Brigades in terms of inter-world war geopolitics, their history and make-up, but less is known about the materiality of the landscapes in which they lived, fought, and died.
The Spanish Civil War was a relatively static conflict. As in the First World War, it consisted of entrenched Republican government lines facing similarly entrenched Nationalist (rebel) lines, and these ran north to south across Spain. Fighting was intermittent, so the front line soldiers had to settle in, and make what was an attritional war-scape, a place to live in and survive. This research examines one such war-scape as a place of ‘settlement’, where soldiers lived their daily lives as well as confronting the rigours of war – and these were the volunteers of the International Brigades, both foreign and Spanish, who occupied a section of lines southeast of Zaragoza in Aragón in 1937 and 1938.
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 – and it incorporates historical photography as a uniquely analytical, archaeological resource.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
PART ONE
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Spanish Civil War
PART TWO
Chapter 3 On Trenches and Field Fortifications
Chapter 4 Trench Systems as Settlement The Salient at Mediana de Aragón
PART THREE
Chapter 5 Experiencing the Mediana Lines
Chapter 6 An Archaeology From Imaging the Aragón Front
Chapter 7 History in ‘Three Dimensions’
Bibliography
Appendix Tables
The Spanish Civil War was a relatively static conflict. As in the First World War, it consisted of entrenched Republican government lines facing similarly entrenched Nationalist (rebel) lines, and these ran north to south across Spain. Fighting was intermittent, so the front line soldiers had to settle in, and make what was an attritional war-scape, a place to live in and survive. This research examines one such war-scape as a place of ‘settlement’, where soldiers lived their daily lives as well as confronting the rigours of war – and these were the volunteers of the International Brigades, both foreign and Spanish, who occupied a section of lines southeast of Zaragoza in Aragón in 1937 and 1938.
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 – and it incorporates historical photography as a uniquely analytical, archaeological resource.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
PART ONE
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Spanish Civil War
PART TWO
Chapter 3 On Trenches and Field Fortifications
Chapter 4 Trench Systems as Settlement The Salient at Mediana de Aragón
PART THREE
Chapter 5 Experiencing the Mediana Lines
Chapter 6 An Archaeology From Imaging the Aragón Front
Chapter 7 History in ‘Three Dimensions’
Bibliography
Appendix Tables
156 pages, Paperback
Published September 30, 2019
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