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

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, ca

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

With the outbreak of war in 1914, an estimated 30,000 German civilians in African and Asian colonies were violently uprooted and imprisoned. Britain's First Wor

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