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Title
Civilian internment during the First World War : a European and global history, 1914-1920 / Matthew Stibbe.
ISBN
9781137571915 (electronic book)
1137571918 (electronic book)
9781137571908
113757190X
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 335 pages.)
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-57191-5 doi
Call Number
D627.A2
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.3/17
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2019).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9781137571908
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.