Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occurred during the First World War when, in the interests of ‘security’ in a situation of total war, the internment of ‘enemy aliens’ became part of state policy for the belligerent states, resulting in the incarceration, displacement and, in more extreme cases, the death by neglect or deliberate killing of hundreds of thousands of people throughout the world. This pioneering book on internment during the First World War brings together international experts to investigate the importance of the conflict for the history of civilian incarceration.
Preface; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; 1 Internment during the First World War: A Global Mass Phenomenon (Stefan Manz, Panikos Panayi and Matthew Stibbe); 2 The Internment of Civilian ‘Enemy Aliens’ in the British Empire (Stefan Manz and Panikos Panayi); 3 Adding Colour to the Silhouettes: The Internment and Treatment of Foreign Civilians in Germany during the First World War (Christoph Jahr and Jens Thiel); 4 The Internment of Enemy Aliens in the Habsburg Empire, 1914–18 (Matthew Stibbe); 5 The Internment of Enemy Aliens in France during the First World War: The ‘Depot’ at Corbara in Corsica (Simon Giuseppi); 6 Enemy Aliens and Colonial Subjects: Confinement and Internment in Italy, 1911–19 (Daniela L.Caglioti); 7 Internment and Destruction: Concentration Camps during the Armenian Genocide, 1915–16 (Khatchig Mouradian); 8 The Internment of Enemy Aliens in Canada during the Great War: Rights, Obligations and Diplomacy (Bohdan S. Kordan); 9 Control and Internment of Enemy Aliens in the United States during the First World War (Jörg Nagler); 10 The New Zealand Occupation of German Samoa during the First World War, 1914–18: Enemy Aliens and Internment (Sandra Barkhof); 11 Internment in Neutral and Belligerent Romania, 1914–19 (Andrei Şiperco); 12 The Internment of Prisoners of War and Civilians in Neutral Switzerland, 1916–19 (Anja Huber); Index
Stefan Manz is Professor of German and Global History at Aston University, Birmingham. His book Constructing a German Diaspora: The ‘Greater German Empire’, 1871–1914 is also published by Routledge. Panikos Panayi is Professor of European History at De Montfort University, United Kingdom. His publications include The Enemy in Our Midst: Germans in Britain During the First World War and Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian and Combatant Internees during the First World War. Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University. His edited volume titled Captivity, Forced Labour and Forced Migration in Europe during the First World War and his co-edited volume (with Ingrid Sharp) titled Women’s International Activism during the Inter-War Period, 1919–1939, are both published by Routledge.
