Minorities and the First World War : from war to peace / Hannah Ewence, Tim Grady, editors.
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, ra...
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Table of Contents:
- Minorities and the First World War; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction. Minority History: From War to Peace; The Centenary and the Politics of Integration and Separatism; Locating Minorities in a Local Context; Minority Experiences and the Discipline of Military History; From War to Peace; Section One-"Friendly" Minorities in War and Peace; Section Two-The Wartime "Enemy": From Internment to Freedom; Section Three-Remembering and Forgetting Minorities in Wartime; Notes; Bibliography; SECTION ONE "Friendly" Minorities in War and Peace.
- 2 "Tasting the King's Salt": Muslims, Contested Loyalties and the First World WarDilemmas of Loyalty?; Loyalty Versus Jihad; Loyalty to What and/or to Whom?; Defending the British Way of Life?; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Between Friends and Enemies: The Dilemma of Jews in the Final Stages of the War; Contested Inclusion: Jewish Participation in the German and British War Efforts; Jewish "Victories" and "Defeats": The Ambivalent Road to Peace and Post-War Stability; Negotiations at Versailles: An Outlook at the "Jewish Question" in 1919; Notes; Bibliography.
- 4 Bridging the Gap Between "War" and "Peace": The Case of Belgian Refugees in BritainFrom Repatriation to Deportation; Entering the "Twilight Zone"; Notes; Bibliography; SECTION TWO The Wartime "Enemy": From Internment to Freedom; 5 "Enemy Aliens" in Scotland in a Global Context, 1914-1919: Germanophobia, Internment, Forgetting; "The Enemy Within": Exceptional Scottish Liberal Imperialism?; Government Measures: Arrest, Displacement, Repatriation and Internment; "Barbed Wire Disease": Life in the Stobs Internment Camp; Return and Remembrance; Notes; Bibliography.
- 6 "The Enemy Within"?: Armenians, Jews, the Military Crises of 1915 and the Genocidal Origins of the "Minorities Question"1915: A Year of Genocidal War; Ottoman Armenians and Russian Jews: "The Enemy Within"?; Military Solutions; Notes; Bibliography; 7 Black, Arab and South Asian Colonial Britons in the Intersections Between War and Peace: The 1919 Seaport Riots in Perspective; Historiography of the Seaport Riots; Wartime Recruitment and the Consequences of Demobilisation; Post-war Job Competition and Housing Shortages as Triggers for the Seaport Riots; Police, Court and Government Reactions.
- NotesBibliography; SECTION THREE Remembering and Forgetting Minorities in Wartime; 8 Race and the Legacy of the First World War in French Anti-Colonial Politics of the 1920s; The First World War on Trial: Blaise Diagne Versus Les Continents; L'Union Intercoloniale and the Rise of Anti-colonialism; The Defence of the Negro Race; The Dream of an Anti-imperialist Global Revolution; Notes; Bibliography; 9 Memory, Storytelling and Minorities: A Case Study of Jews in Britain and the First World War; "Martial Race" Theory and the Writing of Minorities in Wartime.