Barbed-Wire Imperialism (eBook)

Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903

Aidan Forth (Autor)

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2017
368 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96726-7 (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.

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List of Figures
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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Series in British Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Series in British Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1800s • 1900s • 19th century • anglo boer war • Artifacts • British colony • British history • Camps • Colonial • Colonialism • Concentration Camp • Crime • criminal • Early 20th Century • Empire • human suffering • imperialism • Indians • Indians in Britain • Liberal Empire • mass encampment • metropolitan • modern world • Populations • Poverty • Prison • punishment • Refugee camp • Urban • urban poor • Victorian Britain • Victorian period • work camp • workhouse • World History
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96726-7 / 0520967267
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96726-7 / 9780520967267