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Examines the experience of ethnic, religious and national minorities participating in the First World War
Explores issues of contested loyalties, internment, refugees, racial violence, genocide, and memory
Departs from existing narratives of the Great War and develops alternative ways of thinking about the conflict
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Wartime “Enemy”: From Internment to Freedom
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Remembering and Forgetting Minorities in Wartime
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Back Matter
About this book
This book examines the particular experience of ethnic, religious and national minorities who participated in the First World War as members of the main belligerent powers: Britain, France, Germany and Russia. Individual chapters explore themes including contested loyalties, internment, refugees, racial violence, genocide and disputed memories from 1914 through into the interwar years to explore how minorities made the transition from war to peace at the end of the First World War.
The first section discusses so-called ‘friendly minorities’, considering the way in which Jews, Muslims and refugees lived through the war and its aftermath. Section two looks at fears of ‘enemy aliens’, which prompted not only widespread internment, but also violence and genocide. The third section considers how the wartime experience of minorities played out in interwar Europe, exploring debates over political representation and remembrance. Bridging the gap between war and peace, this is the ideal book for all those interested in both First World War and minority histories.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Chester , Chester, United Kingdom
Hannah Ewence
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University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom
Tim Grady
About the editors
Tim Grady is Reader in Modern History at the University of Chester, UK. He is the author of German Jews and the First World War in History and Memory (2009), as well as the forthcoming book: A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Minorities and the First World War
Book Subtitle: From War to Peace
Editors: Hannah Ewence, Tim Grady
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53975-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-53974-8Published: 05 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53975-5Published: 15 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 300
Topics: European History, History of Military, Social History