Civilian Internment during the First World War

A European and Global History, 1914-1920
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-137-57190-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 335 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

This book is the first major study of civilian internment during the First World War as both a European and global phenomenon. Based on research spanning twenty-eight archives in seven countries, this study  explores the connections and continuities, as well as ruptures, between different internment systems at the local, national, regional and imperial levels. Arguing that the years 1914-20 mark the essential turning point in the transnational and international history of the detention camp, this book demonstrates that wartime civilian captivity was inextricably bound up with questions of power, world order and inequalities based on class, race and gender. It also contends that engagement with internees led to new forms of international activism and generated new types of transnational knowledge in the spheres of medicine, law, citizenship and neutrality. Finally, an epilogue explains how and why First World War internment is crucial to understanding the world we live in today.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stibbe, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction.- 2. First World War Internment across the Globe.- 3. Internment and War Governance in the First World War.- 4. Imagining Internment: International Law, Social Order and National Community.- 5. Internment and International Activism: The Search for More Humane Alternatives.- 6. (Not) Ending Internment: The Years 1918-20.- 7. Conclusion and Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University. UK. A twentieth-century specialist working across and beyond the borders of Europe, he has co-edited two essay collections on First World War captivity, and is author of the British Civilian Internees in Germany: The Ruhleben Camp, 1914-18 (2008).