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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483264303321

Autore

Stibbe Matthew

Titolo

Civilian Internment during the First World War : A European and Global History, 1914—1920 / / by Matthew Stibbe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9781137571915

1137571918

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 335 pages)

Disciplina

940.317

Soggetti

Europe - History

Military history

World history

Social history

European History

Military History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Social History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.