Domestic Surveillance and Social Control in Britain and France during World War I

ISBN-13: 9781032673271 / Twarda / 2024 / 184 str.

Gary Girod

Opis

This book examines the rapid development and expansion of agencies and governmental power to monitor and control the homefront in Britain and France during World War I.

Spis treści

Introduction / Chapter 1: Control through Cooperation, Pre-War through 1914 / Chapter 2: Total War and Internal Surveillance, Britain and France 1915 / Chapter 3: Successful Suppression? 1916 / Chapter 4: 1917: The May Strikes / Chapter 5: 1918: The Specter of Communism and the Surveillance of Citizens / Chapter 6: The Uneasy Aftermath / Conclusion / Bibliography

O autorze

Gary Girod received his Ph.D. from the University of Houston in 2021. He researches World War I-era domestic intelligence and labor. His article “The women who make the guns” (2019) examines women munitions workers in Paris and Glasgow between 1914-1919.