Ruhleben - A Prison Camp Society (Paperback)

This is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to social psychology and also an absorbing story of four strange years in a German prison camp of World War I. Four thousand men and boys from the most varied walks of life—professors, seamen, jockeys, schoolboys, bank directors, musicians, clerks, scientists—were taken from civilian life and placed in Ruhleben on the outbreak of war; no activities were prescribed for them, no direction was given to their communal life. In the event, this miscellaneous group of people, closed off from the world, create d their own society. This book is the story of how they did it and what the society they made was like; much more than this, the camp provides a gifted and sympathetic social psychologist with a rare opportunity for study and analysis of an important if inadvertent social experiment. The time elapsed between the event itself and the completion of the book may in one way be regretted; it did, however, allow the author, who was himself and inmate of Ruhleben, the opportunity for mature reflection on its meaning. The book is a contribution to the history of World War I; it is also a basic and timeless study of the dynamics of individual and group behaviour.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Series:	Heritage
Release date:	2020
First published:	1965
Authors:	J. Davidson Ketchum
Foreword by:	Robert B. MacLeod
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	422
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-2575-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	1-4875-2575-3
Barcode:	9781487525750

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