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Minorities and the First World War

From War to Peace

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Editors:
  1. Hannah Ewence

    1. University of Chester , Chester, United Kingdom

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  2. Tim Grady

    1. University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction. Minority History: From War to Peace

    • Hannah Ewence, Tim Grady
    Pages 1-29
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  6. Back Matter

    Pages 291-300
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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

  • University of Chester , Chester, United Kingdom

    Hannah Ewence

  • University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

    Tim Grady

About the editors

Hannah Ewence is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Chester, UK. She is the co-editor of Whatever Happened to British-Jewish Studies? (2012) and Visualizing Jews through the Ages: Literary and Material Representations of Jewishness and Judaism (2015). 


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

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