-
Views
-
Cite
Cite
Matthew Stibbe, Daniela L. Caglioti. War and Citizenship: Enemy Aliens and National Belonging from the French Revolution to the First World War., The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages 421–422, https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad062
- Share Icon Share
Extract
Daniela L. Caglioti’s new book, War and Citizenship: Enemy Aliens and National Belonging from the French Revolution to the First World War, is the third English-language academic study in as many years to tackle the subject of enemy aliens in the First World War from a global perspective, following monographs by myself and Stefan Manz and Panikos Panayi. An extensive, two-volume German-language account covering both world wars has meanwhile also been written by Arnd Bauerkämper. After decades of relative neglect, this has indeed become a thriving field.
The distinctive features of Caglioti’s contribution are twofold. First, she takes the story back to the French Revolution and the early American republic, and in doing so pays particular attention to questions of (popular) sovereignty, citizenship (including legal, political, and gendered dimensions), migration, and incidents before 1914 of internment and (more commonly) expulsion of foreign nationals, both in times of war and peace. Second, in respect to the 1914 to 1920 period itself, she goes beyond discussion of administrative detention and forced removals to include a detailed analysis of state seizures of enemy property.