Paradox in places: twentieth-century battlefield sites in long-term perspective

The ‘Bloody Meadows’ project (Carman 1999a, b) investigates the category of the ‘historic battlefield’ as a culturally constructed locale. It approaches battlefields from the premise that such places have something to tell us about the nature of human violence as expressed in war, and this makes them important. As a consequence, the project is inevitably concerned with issues surrounding their preservation.