This new analysis of internment outside Europe helps us to understand the First World War as a truly global conflict.

Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occur

This book is the first major study of civilian internment during the First World War as both a European and global phenomenon. Based on research spanning twenty

Introduction : Britain's empire of camps -- Concentrating the "dangerous classes" : the cultural and material foundations of British camps -- "Barbed wire deter