'Totally un-English'? : Britain's internment of 'enemy aliens' in two world wars / / edited by Richard Dove

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966601403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2005
• ISBN: 9789042016583; 9042016582
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (209 pages, 4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations, portrait, music
• Collana: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; ; 7
• Altri autori (Persone): DoveRichard <1938-2022.>
• Disciplina: 940.547241
• Soggetti: Noncitizens - Great Britain - History - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 - Great Britain; World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain; Internment camps - Great Britain; Noncitizens - Great Britain - Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 'A matter which touches the good name of this country' / Richard Dove -- A marginalized subject? The historiography of enemy alien internment in Britain / Panikos Panayai -- ; Internment in the First World War -- Prisoners of Britain: German civilian, military and naval internees during the first world war / Panikos Panayai -- Behind the wire : the material culture of civilian interment on the Isle of Man in the first world war / Yvonne Cresswell -- Die bedeutung der musik fur 26,000 internierte zivilisten während des ersten weltkriegs auf der Isle of Man / Jutta Raab Hansen -- Civilian interment in Scotland during the first world war / Stefan Manz -- ; Internment in the Second World War -- 'Loyal to the reich': national socialists and others in the Rushen women's interment camp / Charmian Brinson -- 'Wer sie nicht eriebt hat, der begreift sie nie.' The internment camp revue What a life! / Richard Dove -- 'Something to make people laugh'? Political content in Isle of Man internment camp journals July-October 1940 / Jennifer Taylor -- The internment of Italians 1940-1945 / Lucio Sponza -- After the prison ships: internment narratives in Canada / Nicole M.T. ; Brunnhuber -- The Dunera boys: dramatizing history from a Jewish perspective / Birgit Lang -- Exile, internment and deportation in Norbet Gstrein's Die englischen Jahre / J.M. Ritchie.
• Sommario/riassunto: "The internment of ‘enemy aliens’ by the British government in two world wars remains largely hidden from history. British historians have treated the subject – if at all – as a mere footnote to the main narrative of Britain at war. In the ‘Great War’, Britain interned some 30,000 German nationals, most of whom had been long-term residents. In fact, internment brought little discernible benefit, but cruelly damaged lives and livelihoods, breaking up families and disrupting social networks. In May 1940, under the threat of imminent invasion, the British government interned some 28,000 Germans and Austrians, mainly Jewish refugees from the Third Reich. It was a measure which provoked lively criticism, not least in Parliament, where one MP called the internment of refugees ‘totally un-English’. The present volume seeks to shed more light on this still submerged historical episode, adopting an inter-disciplinary approach to explore hitherto under-researched aspects, including the historiography of internment, the internment of women, deportation to Canada, and culture in internment camps, including such notable events as the internment revue What is Life!"--Provided by publisher.