Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction. The Things They Carried: War, Mobility, and Material Culture 1
6. Part I States of Things The Making of Modern Nation-States and Empires 23
7. 1. The Honor of the Trophy: A Prussian Bronze in the Napoleonic Era 27
8. 2. Colliding Empires: French Display of Roman Antiquities Expropriated from Postconquest Algeria, 1830–1870 50
9. 3. Pretty Things, Ugly Histories: Decorating with Persecuted People’s Property in Central Bohemia, 1938–1958 78
10. Part II. People and Things: Individual Use of Things in Wartime 107
11. 4. “Peeled” Bodies, Pillaged Homes: Looting and Material Culture in the American Civil War Era 111
12. 5. Embodied Violence: A Red Army Soldier’s Journey as Told by Objects 139
13. 6. Small Escapes: Gender, Class, and Material Culture in Great War Internment Camps 164
14. 7. The Bricolage of Death: Jewish Possessions and the Fashioning of the Prisoner Elite in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1942–1945 189
15. Part III. Afterlives: From Things to Memories 221
16. 8. Lisa’s Things: Matching German-Jewish and Indian- Muslim Traditions 223
17. 9. Circuitous Journeys: The Migration of Objects and the Trusteeship of Memory 248
18. 10. Paku Karen Skirt-Cloths (Not) at Home: Forcibly Migrated Burmese Textiles in Refugee Camps and Museums 277
19. Epilogue 309
20. Notes on Contributors 319
21. Index 325