Captivity In War During The Twentieth Century
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Author | : Marcel Berni |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2021-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3030650952 |
This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century. It explores how global institutions and practices with regard to captives mattered, how they evolved and most importantly, how they influenced the treatment of captives. From the beginning of the twentieth century, international organisations, neutral nations and other actors with no direct involvement in the respective wars often had to fill in to support civilian as well as military captives and to supervise their treatment. This edited volume puts these actors, rather than the captives themselves, at the centre in order to assess comparatively their contributions to wartime captivity. Taking a global approach, it shows that transnational bodies - whether non-governmental organisations, neutral states or individuals - played an essential role in dealing with captives in wartime. Chapters cover both the largest wars, such as the two World Wars, but also lesser-known conflicts, to highlight how captives were placed at the centre of transnational negotiations.
Author | : Anne-Marie Pathé |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785332597 |
Long a topic of historical interest, wartime captivity has over the past decade taken on new urgency as an object of study. Transnational by its very nature, captivity’s historical significance extends far beyond the front lines, ultimately inextricable from the histories of mobilization, nationalism, colonialism, law, and a host of other related subjects. This wide-ranging volume brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of this evolving research agenda, offering fascinating new perspectives on historical moments that range from the early days of the Great War to the arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Author | : Anne-Marie Pathé |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : |
Long a topic of historical interest, wartime captivity has over the past decade taken on new urgency as an object of study. Transnational by its very nature, captivity's historical significance extends far beyond the front lines, ultimately inextricable from the histories of mobilization, nationalism, colonialism, law, and a host of other related subjects. This wide-ranging volume brings together an international selection of scholars to trace the contours of this evolving research agenda, offering fascinating new perspectives on historical moments that range from the early days of the Great War to the arrival of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Author | : Mahon Murphy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108418074 |
This new analysis of internment outside Europe helps us to understand the First World War as a truly global conflict.
Author | : Geoffrey P. R. Wallace |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080145574X |
In Life and Death in Captivity, Geoffrey P. R. Wallace explores the profound differences in the ways captives are treated during armed conflict. Wallace focuses on the dual role played by regime type and the nature of the conflict in determining whether captor states opt for brutality or mercy.
Author | : Susan Lisa Carruthers |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520257308 |
Susan Carruthers offers a provocative history of early Cold War America, in which she recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. She shows how central to American opinion at the time was a fascination with captivity & escape. Captivity became a way to understand everything.
Author | : Clare Makepeace |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107145872 |
Capture-- Imprisoned servicemen -- Bonds between men -- Ties with home -- Going "round the bend"--Liberation -- Resettling -- Conclusion
Author | : Mark Gilbert |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2014-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442219866 |
This compelling history of Europe’s Cold War follows the dramatic arc of the conflict that shaped the development of the continent and defined world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. Focusing on European actors and events, Mark Gilbert traces the onset of the Cold War, the process of Stalinization in the Soviet bloc, and the difficulties of legitimation experienced by communist regimes in Hungary, Poland, and East Germany even after Stalin’s death. He also shows how Washington’s leadership and worldview was contested in Western Europe, especially by Great Britain and French president Charles de Gaulle. The book charts the growing weakness of the communist system in Eastern Europe and the economic and moral reasons for the system’s eventual collapse. It highlights the central role of European leaders in the process of détente and in the diplomatic endgame that concluded the Cold War in 1990. Rather than simply a strategic standoff between the superpowers, Gilbert argues, the Cold War was a social and ideological conflict that transformed Europe from Lisbon to Riga. Fast-paced and readable, this political, intellectual, and social history illuminates a conflict that continues to resonate today.
Author | : Richard Reid (Ph.D.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 9780642414854 |
Author | : Daniel Krebs |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2021-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700630511 |
Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare. In Useful Captives volume editors Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote and their contributors explore the wide range of roles that captives play in times of conflict: hostages used to negotiate vital points of contention between combatants, consumers, laborers, propaganda tools, objects of indoctrination, proof of military success, symbols, political instruments, exemplars of manhood ideals, loyal and disloyal soldiers, and agents of change in society. The book’s eleven chapters cover conflicts involving Americans, ranging from colonial warfare on the Creek-Georgia border in the late eighteenth century, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great War, World War II, to twenty-first century U.S. drone warfare. This long historical horizon enables the reader to go beyond the prison camp experience of POWs to better understand the many ways they influence the nature and course of military conflict. Useful Captives shows the vital role that prisoners of war play in American warfare and reveals the cultural contexts of warfare, the shaping and altering of military policies, the process of state-building, the impacts upon the economy and environment of the conflict zone, their special place in propaganda and political symbolism, and the importance of public history in shaping national memory.