Militarized Landscapes From Gettysburg To Salisbury Plain

Peter Coates

"War and the preparation for war generally take place outdoors, in fields, forests, grasslands, deserts, and other environments. Militarization, then, is a process that requires the active deployment and exploitation of various landscape features, including topography, vegetation, and climate ... Militarization is a process that occurs through, and leaves its mark on, societies, economies, cultures, and political structures. It also operates through landscape, which it changes or maintains, in both a physical and cultural sense ... Taken as a whole, the chapters in this volume capture a sense of the constantly changing meanings and materialities of militarized landscapes and the ways in which sites as diverse as Gettysburg, Salisbury Plain and the Korean DMZ have been created, transformed, narrated and represented. And while these sites may have been accorded predominantly military...