Emergency powers and the home fronts in Britain and Germany during the first World War /
"The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts with little democratic scru...
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Studies in German history (Oxford University Press)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : historicizing the wartime state of exception
- Preparing for the war at home : domestic policies in British and German war plans before 1914
- Establishing the state of exception on the home fronts, 1914-1916
- Guardians of the home front : military, police, and courts as agents of the state of exception
- Enforced endurance : emergency powers and the coercive wartime state, 1916-1918
- 'Enemies within' : activists, emergency measures, and the struggle for civil liberties
- The aftermath : the transition from war to peace and new emergency powers, 1918-1920
- Conclusion : the First World War as a 'laboratory' for the state of exception.