Panikos Panayi

Enemy in our Midst (eBook, ePUB)

Germans in Britain during the First World War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the approach of the First World War, the German community in Britain began to be assailed by a combination of government measures and popular hostility which resulted in attacks against individuals with German connections and confiscation of their property. From May 1915, a policy of wholesale internment and repatriation was to reduce the German population by more than half of its pre-war figure. The author of this study charts the growth of the German community in Britain before detailing the story of its destruction under the chauvinistic intolerance which gripped the country during the Great War.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472577931
• Artikelnr.: 40502730

Autorenporträt

Panikos Panayi is Professor of European History at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of Migrant City: A New History of London (2020) and, with Stefan Manz, Enemies in the Empire: Civilian Internment in the British Empire during the First World War (2020), among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Victorian and Edwardian Background
Part I - The Official Reaction
2. Measures Against Enemy Aliens
3. Internment and Repatriation
4. The Experience of Internment
5. Measures Against German Business Interests
Part II - The Popular Reaction
6. Anti-German Sentiment: Spy-Fever, Anti-Alienism and the Hidden Hand
7. Anti-German Manifestations: Witch-Hunts, Boycotts and Movements
8. Anti-German Riots
9. Support for Enemy Aliens
Part III - Conclusion
10. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index