Germans as Minorities during the First World War

Contents: Preface; Part I Overview: Germans as minorities during the First World War: global comparative perspectives, Panikos Panayi; Diaspora and Weltpolitik in Wilhelmine Germany, Stefan Manz; The German Empire's response: from retaliation to the painful realities of defeat, Matthew Stibbe. Part II Case Studies: Gender and Germanophobia: the forgotten experiences of German women in Britain, 1914-1919, ZoA<< Denness; 'Barbed wire disease' or a 'prison camp society': the everyday lives of German internees on the Isle of Man, 1914-1919, Panikos Panayi; The national mobilization of German immigrants and their descendants in Belgium, 1870-1920, Frank Caestecker and Antoon Vrints; Germanophobia and economic nationalism: government policies against enemy aliens in Italy during the First World War, Daniela L. Caglioti; The Russian Germans: a heterogeneous minority during the First World War, Dittmar Dahlmann; Spies, victims, collaborators and humanitarian interventionists: the Germans on the Hellenic and Ottoman shore of the Aegean, Malte Fuhrmann; 'Patriotic enemies': Germans in the Americas, 1914-1920, Tammy M. Proctor; 'Avenge the Lusitania': the anti-German riots in South Africa in 1915, Tilman Dedering; Power majorities and local minorities: German and British colonials in East Africa during the First World War, Daniel Steinbach; From 'proven worthy settlers' to 'lawless Hunnish brutes': Germans in New Zealand during the Great War, Andrew Francis; Select bibliography of key works; Index.