Colonial captivity during the First World War : internment and the fall of the German empire, 1914-1919 /
With the outbreak of war in 1914, an estimated 30,000 German civilians in African and Asian colonies were violently uprooted and imprisoned. Britain's First World War internment of German settlers seriously challenged the structures that underpinned nineteenth-century imperialism. Through its a...
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| Idioma: | anglès |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Col·lecció: | Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1578699 |
Taula de continguts:
- Part I. Empire, internment and the First World War
- Internment in the First World War and the global context
- The geography of internment
- Part II. The experience of internment
- Rum, solitary and the lash: violence against prisoners of war
- Der krieg ist kein afternoon tea! Identity and internment
- The propaganda of internment: presenting the colonial conflict to Europe
- Part III. Global connections
- The British empire and the global internment system
- The end of German colonial rule: repatriation
- Conclusion.