Battlefields from Event to Heritage

by John Carman and Patricia Carman

What is -- or makes a place -- a 'historic battlefield'?

From one perspective the answer is simple -- it is a place where large numbers of people came together in an organised manner to fight one another at some point in the past. Yet from another perspective it is far more difficult to say. Why any such location is a place of battle rather than any other kind of event, and why it is especially historic, is hard to identify. This book sets...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198857462
• ISBN13: 9780198857464
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"