Civilian Internment during the First World War
A European and Global History, 1914-1920
1st Edition
Published on 14. November 2019
XI, 335 pages
978-1-137-57191-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
XI, 335 p.
File size
3,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-57191-5 (9781137571915)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-57191-5
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Matthew Stibbe
Civilian Internment during the First World War
A European and Global History, 1914-1920
Book
11/2019
Palgrave Macmillan
€149.79
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Person
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).
Content
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.
