Overview
- Provides the first major study of civilian internment during the First World War as both a European and global phenomenon
- Argues that the years 1914-20 mark the essential turning point in the transnational and international history of the detention camp
- Demonstrates that wartime civilian captivity was inextricably bound up with questions of power, world order and inequalities based on class, race and gender
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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.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civilian Internment during the First World War
Book Subtitle: A European and Global History, 1914—1920
Authors: Matthew Stibbe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57191-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57190-8Published: 26 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84817-1Due: 16 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57191-5Published: 14 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 335
Topics: European History, History of Military, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History