'Totally un-English'? : : Britain's Internment of 'Enemy Aliens' in Two World Wars /

'Totally un-English'? : : Britain's Internment of 'Enemy Aliens' in Two World Wars / / edited by Richard Dove.

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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...

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Superior document:Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; 7
TeilnehmendeR:
Dove, Richard, 1938-2022,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
Series:Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; 7.
Physical Description:1 online resource (217 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Richard DOVE: 'A matter which touches the good name of this country'
  • Panikos PANAYI: A Marginalized Subject? The Historiography of Enemy Alien Internment in Britain
  • Internment in the First World War
  • Panikos PANAYI: Prisoners of Britain: German Civilian, Military and Naval Internees during the First World War
  • Yvonne CRESSWELL: Behind the Wire: the material culture of civilian internment on the Isle of Man in the First World War
  • Jutta Raab HANSEN: Die Bedeutung der Musik für 26.000 internierte Zivilisten während des Ersten Weltkriegs auf der Isle of Man
  • Stefan MANZ: Civilian Internment in Scotland during the First World War
  • Internment in the Second World War
  • Charmian BRINSON: 'Loyal to the Reich': National Socialists and Others in the Rushen Women's Internment Camp
  • Richard DOVE: 'Wer sie nicht erlebt hat, der begreift sie nie.' The Internment Camp Revue
  • What is life!
  • Jennifer TAYLOR: 'Something to make people laugh'? Political content in Isle of Man Internment Camp Journals July-October 1940
  • Lucio SPONZA: The Internment of Italians 1940-1945
  • Nicole M. T. BRUNNHUBER : After the Prison Ships: Internment Narratives in Canada
  • Birgit LANG: The Dunera Boys : Dramatizing History from a Jewish Perspective
  • J. M. RITCHIE: Exile, Internment and Deportation in Norbert Gstrein's Die englische Jahre
  • Index.

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