TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keil,André
TI  - Emergency Powers and the Home Fronts in Britain and Germany During the First World War
T2  - Studies in German History Series
SN  - 9780198918561
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Fernzugriff
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover -- Emergency Powers and the Home Fronts in Britain and Germany during the First World War -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Historicizing the Wartime State of Exception -- Historians, Theorists, and the State of Exception as a Historical Problem -- Historical Trajectories of the State of Exception in Britain and Germany -- Outline -- 1: Preparing for the War at Home: Domestic Policies in British and German War Plans before 1914 -- Policing Working-Class Unrest: The Use of Troops in Strikes and the Emergence of Modern Public Order Policing -- Emergency Legislation as Part of German and British War Plans -- Comparison and Conclusion -- 2: Establishing the State of Exception on the Home Fronts, 1914-1916 -- Establishing the State of Exception (August-December 1914) -- Emergency Government between Domestic Truce, Enforced Endurance, and Emerging Dissent (January 1915-December 1916) -- Comparison and Conclusion -- 3: Guardians of the Home Front: Military, Police, and Courts as Agents of the State of Exception -- Police and Society in Germany and Britain before 1914 -- Enforcing the State of Exception: German and British Police within the System of Emergency Government -- Law as a Weapon: Courts and Judges as Agents of the State of Exception -- Comparison and Conclusion -- 4: Enforced Endurance: Emergency Powers and the Coercive Wartime State, 1916-1918 -- The Military and Political Crises of 1916 and Their Impact on Emergency Government -- The Impact of the Russian Revolutions on British and German Home Front Politics in 1917 -- Towards the Abyss: Emergency Government, Dissent, and Enforced Endurance on the Home Fronts in 1918 -- Comparison and Conclusion -- 5: 'Enemies Within': Activists, Emergency Measures, and the Struggle for Civil Liberties; Pacifists and the State in Germany and Britain before 1914 -- British and German Activists under the State of Exception -- Comparison and Conclusion -- 6: The Aftermath: The Transition from War to Peace and New Emergency Powers, 1918-1920 -- Emergency Powers and the Transition from War to Peace, 1918-1920 -- Legal Legacies: Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution and the Emergency Powers Act 1920 -- Comparison and Conclusion -- Conclusion The First World War as a 'Laboratory' for the State of Exception -- References -- Unpublished Primary Sources -- Archival Sources -- Published Primary Sources -- Official Documents, Legislation, and Parliamentary Proceedings -- Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals -- Books and Other Publications -- Secondary Sources -- Index
N2  - The book offers a wealth of local examples that explain how ideologies and perceptions of the 'enemy within' shaped the use of repressive emergency powers by politicians, police, and military
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