Out of line, out of place : a global and local history of World War I internments

With expert scholars and great sensitivity, Out of Line, Out of Place provides illumination and analysis on how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a biopolitical tool of governance. Although the internment camp developed as a technology of containment, control, and punishment in the latter part of the nineteenth century mainly in colonial settings, it truly became universal and global during the Great War. Mass internment has long been recognized as a defining experience of World War II but was a fundamental experience of World War I as well. Over eight million soldiers became POWs, more than a million civilians became internees, and several millions more were displaced from their homes, with many placed in securitized refugee camps. For the first time, Out of Line, Out of Place brings these different camps in conversation together. Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov emphasize that although there were differences among camps and varied logic of internment in individual countries, there were also striking similarities in how camps operated during the Great War.-- Provided by publisher Out of Line, Out of Place Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Military, Civilian, and Political Internments: Examining Great War Internments Together Part I: Internments in Europe 1. (Dis)entangling the Local, the National, and the International: Civilian Internment in Germany and in German-Occupied France and Belgium in Global Context 2. The Captives of the Kaiser: Schutzhaft and Political Prisoners in Germany 3. Securitized Protection: Health Work in Wartime Austria-Hungary and the Making of Refugee Camps 4. Alexandra Palace: A Concentration Camp in the Heart of London 5. Prisoner-of-War Civilian Experience: The Role of Profession among POWs in Russia 6. The Face and Race of the Enemy: German POW Photographs as a Weapon of War Part II: Internments beyond Europe 7. “Enemies of Our Country”: Internment in Canada’s Rocky Mountains National Park, 1915–1917 8. Globalizing Captivity: “Little Germany in China” in Japan 9. German Propaganda and the African and Asian Theaters of the War Part III: Interwar Repercussions and Beyond 10. Internment after the War’s End: “Humanitarian Camps” in the POW Repatriation Process, 1918–1923 11. POWs, Civilians, and the Postwar Development of International Humanitarian Law Conclusion: World War I and Its Internments: Final Remarks References Contributors Index "Internment was a defining experience of War World I with ten million combatants and civilians placed in camps and securitized facilities. This book is the first to examine military, civilian, and political internments together and from a global perspective. It explains their proliferation during the war and their long-term significance"-- Provided by publisher