Civilian Internment During the First World War: A European and Global History, 1914--1920

ISBN-13: 9781137571908 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 335 str.

Matthew Stibbe

Spis treści

1. Introduction                                                                                                                

      2. First World War Internment across the Globe  

                        Germans and Austro-Hungarians                                                                        

                        The German and Habsburg Empires’ Response                                                  

                        Ottoman Turkey, Bulgaria and the Balkans                                                          

       3. Internment and War Governance in the First World War                                               

                        France                                                                                                              

                        Britain                                                                                                               

                        Germany                                                                                                           

                        Austria-Hungary                                                                                     

                        War Governance, Camps and the Turkish Genocide against the

                          Ottoman Armenians, 1915-16                                                                           

  4. Imagining Internment: International Law, Social Order and National Community         

                        International Law and Perceptions of the ‘Other’: the view of officials Reprisals and Punishments                                                  

                        Internment and Social Control                                                                            

                        Internment and ideas about ‘National Community’                                                

5.Internment and International Activism: The Search for More Humane Alternatives       

                        Pre-War Precedents: Emily Hobhouse and the South African Camps                   

                        The Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Ausländer in Deutschland

                        The Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle and the ICRC                                                        

                        Neutral Internment in Switzerland and the Netherlands                                          

                        Barbed-Wire Disease and the ‘Medicalisation’ of Internment                                  

6.(Not) Ending Internment: The Years 1918-20                                                                 

                        Wartime Civilian Captivity in Russia from Tsar Nicholas II to Lenin                        

                        Germany and Austria-Hungary                                                                            

                        Imperial Britain and its Allies in Africa, Asia and the Atlantic Ocean                      

                        France, Italy and the ‘Little Entente’ (Romania, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia)         

The ‘Red Scare’: the Americas                                                                           

  7. Conclusion and Epilogue

O autorze

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).

Blurb

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.