Civilian Internment during the First World War A European and Global History, 1914-1920 /

• Main Author: Stibbe, Matthew (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Europe-History.; Military history.; World history.; Social history.; European History.; History of Military.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Social History.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.