Captivity in war during the twentieth century : the forgotten diplomatic role of transnational actors / Marcel Berni, Tamara Cubito, editors.
Berni, Marcel, editor.; Cubito, Tamara, editor.
2021
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Title
Captivity in war during the twentieth century : the forgotten diplomatic role of transnational actors / Marcel Berni, Tamara Cubito, editors.
ISBN
9783030650957 (electronic bk.)
3030650952 (electronic bk.)
3030650944
9783030650940
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65095-7
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
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1 online resource
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10.1007/978-3-030-65095-7 doi
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UB800
Dewey Decimal Classification
355.113
Summary
This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century. It explores how global institutions and practices with regard to captives mattered, how they evolved and most importantly, how they influenced the treatment of captives. From the beginning of the twentieth century, international organisations, neutral nations and other actors with no direct involvement in the respective wars often had to fill in to support civilian as well as military captives and to supervise their treatment. This edited volume puts these actors, rather than the captives themselves, at the centre in order to assess comparatively their contributions to wartime captivity. Taking a global approach, it shows that transnational bodies - whether non-governmental organisations, neutral states or individuals - played an essential role in dealing with captives in wartime. Chapters cover both the largest wars, such as the two World Wars, but also lesser-known conflicts, to highlight how captives were placed at the centre of transnational negotiations. Marcel Berni is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He specialises in the history of the Cold War. His dissertation on the treatment of communist captives during Vietnam's American War has won the Andre Corvisier Prize. Tamara Cubito is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She recently completed her PhD on the treatment of enemy aliens in the British colonies during the First World War.
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Cubito, Tamara, editor.
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Chapter 1. The Diplomatic Role of Transnational Actors in Wartime Captivity; Marcel Berni, Tamara Cubito
Chapter 2. Any unfavourable condition or untoward circumstance will receive immediate attention : American Consuls Visits to British Colonial Internment Camps of the Great War; Tamara Cubito
Chapter 3. Heraus mit unseren Gefangenen! The German Home Front and the International Campaign for Prisoner of War Repatriation, 1918-1919; Brian K. Feltman
Chapter 4. An Uneasy Balance: International Relief Efforts in the Chaco War; Robert Niebuhr
Chapter 5. Japanese Civilian Internees in New Caledonia: A Gap Between the Protecting Powers and the ICRC; Rowena Ward
Chapter 6. Japanese Prisoners of War, the American-Soviet Conflict, and the Role of Repatriated War Veterans in the Early Cold War in East Asia; Frank Jacob
Chapter 7. The ICRC and Communist Captives during Vietnams American War; Marcel Berni
Chapter 8. Biafras Captives: The Oilmen Incident and International Diplomacy in the Nigerian Civil War; Onianwa Oluchuchukwu Ignatus
Chapter 9. 90,000 Prisoners of War as Bargaining Chip: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan 1972 to 1974; Amit Das Gupta.

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