Enemy in our Midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War

by Panikos Panayi

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472577931
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	03/26/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
Lexile:	1520L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Panikos Panayi is Senior Lecturer in History at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

... will remain a useful reference work on the subject for some time to come.” —The Slavonic Review

“... will serve as the authoritative work on the subject for decades to come.” —Choice

“... a sound piece of historical research which fills a definite gap in our understanding of the British home front during the Great War, not to mention the position of aliens within British society.” —German History

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