Internment during the First World War : a mass global phenomenon / edited By Stefan Manz, Panikos Panayi And Matthew Stibbe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Internment during the First World War: a global mass phenomenon / Stefan Manz, Panikos Panayi and Matthew Stibbe -- The internment of civilian "enemy aliens" in the British Empire / Stefan Manz and Panikos Panayi -- Adding colour to the silhouettes: the internment and treatment of foreign civilians in Germany during the First World War / Christoph Jahr and Jens Thiel -- The internment of enemy aliens in the Habsburg Empire, 1914-1918 / Matthew Stibbe -- The internment of enemy aliens in France during the First World War: the "depot" at Corbara in Corsica / Simon Giuseppi -- Colonial subjects and enemy aliens: confinement and internment in Italy, 1911-1919 / Daniela L.Caglioti -- Internment and destruction: concentration camps during the Armenian genocide, 1915-1916 / Khatchig Mouradian -- The internment of enemy aliens in Canada during the Great War: rights, obligations and diplomacy / Bohdan S. Kordan -- Control and internment of enemy aliens in the United States during the First World War / J�org Nagler -- The New Zealand occupation of German Samoa during the First World War, 1914-1918: enemy aliens and internment / Sandra Barkhof -- Internment in neutral and belligerent Romania (1914-1919) / Andrei Siperco -- The internment of prisoners of war and civilians in neutral Switzerland, 1916-1919 / Anja Huber.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.