Barbed-Wire Imperialism

Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903

Aidan Forth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29397-7 (ISBN)

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Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentration and refugee camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) within longer traditions of controlling the urban poor in metropolitan Britain and managing "suspect" populations in the empire. Workhouses and prisons, along with criminal tribe settlements and enclosures for the millions of Indians displaced by famine and plague in the late nineteenth century, offered early prototypes for mass encampment. Venues of great human suffering, British camps were artifacts of liberal empire that inspired and legitimized the practices of future regimes.

Aidan Forth is Assistant Professor of British imperial history at Loyola University Chicago.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Britain’s Empire of Camps
1. Concentrating the “Dangerous Classes”: The Cultural and Material Foundations of British Camps
2. “Barbed-Wire Deterrents”: Detention and Relief at Indian Famine Camps, 1876–1901
3. “A Source of Horror and Dread”: Plague Camps in India and South Africa, 1896–1901
4. Concentrated Humanity: The Management and Anatomy of Colonial Camps, c. 1900
5. Camps in a Time of War: Civilian Concentration in Southern Africa, 1900–1901
6. “Only Matched in Times of Famine and Plague”: Life and Death in the Concentration Camps
7. “A System Steadily Perfected”: Camp Reform and the “New Geniuses from India,” 1901–1903

Epilogue: Camps Go Global: Lessons, Legacies, and Forgotten Solidarities
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Series in British Studies ; 12
Zusatzinfo	34b-w illus
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-29397-5 / 0520293975
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29397-7 / 9780520293977
Zustand	Neuware