Civilian Internment during the First World War

A European and Global History, 1914—1920

Matthew Stibbe (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

335 Seiten

2019 | 2019 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-57190-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2019
Zusatzinfo	XI, 335 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
Schlagworte	barbed wire disease • Civilian Internment • European History • First World War • History of Military
ISBN-10	1-137-57190-X / 113757190X
ISBN-13	978-1-137-57190-8 / 9781137571908
Zustand	Neuware