Germans as Minorities during
the First World War
A Global Comparative Perspective
Edited by
PANIKOS PANAYI
De Montfort University, UK
ASHGATE
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
PART I: OVERVIEW
1
Germans as Minorities during the First World War: Global
Comparative Perspectives
Panikos Panayi
2
Diaspora and Weltpolitik in Wilhelmine Germany
Stefan Manz
3
The German Empire's Response: From Retaliation to the Painful
Realities of Defeat
Matthew Stibbe
PART II: CASE STUDIES
4
Gender and Germanophobia: The Forgotten Experiences of
German Women in Britain, 1914-1919
ZoeDenness
5
'Barbed Wire Disease' or a 'Prison Camp Society': The Everyday
Lives of German Internees on the Isle of Man, 1914-1919
Panikos Panayi
6
The National Mobilization of German Immigrants and their
Descendants in Belgium, 1870-1920
Frank Caestecker andAntoon Vrints
7
Germanophobia and Economic Nationalism:
Government Policies against Enemy Aliens in Italy during the
First World War
DanielaL. Caglioti
VI
8
9
Germans as Minorities during the First World War
The Russian Germans: A Heterogeneous Minority during the
First World War
Dittmar Dahlmann
Spies, Victims, Collaborators and Humanitarian
Interventionists: The Germans on the Hellenic and
Ottoman Shore of the Aegean
Malte Fuhrmann
171
189
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10
'Patriotic Enemies': Germans in the Americas, 1914-1920
Tammy M. Proctor
11
'Avenge the Lusitania': The Anti-German Riots in South Africa
in 1915
Tilman Dedering
235
Power Majorities and Local Minorities: German and British
Colonials in East Africa during the First World War
Daniel Steinbach
263
From 'Proven Worthy Settlers' to 'Lawless Hunnish Brutes':
Germans in New Zealand during the Great War
Andrew Francis
289
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Select Bibliography of Key Works
Index
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