Barbed-Wire Imperialism : Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 / Aidan Forth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forth, Aidan, author.

Series:

Berkeley series in British studies ; 12.

Berkeley Series in British Studies ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internment camps--Africa--History--19th century.

Internment camps.

South African War, 1899-1902--Concentration camps.

South African War, 1899-1902.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: Britain's Empire of Camps

CHAPTER 1. Concentrat

CHAPTER 2. "Barbed-Wire Deterrents"

CHAPTER 3. "A Source of Horror and Dread"

CHAPTER 4. Concentrated Humanity

CHAPTER 5. Camps in a Time of War

CHAPTER 6. "Only Matched in Times of Famine and Plague"

CHAPTER 7. "A System Steadily Perfected"

EPILOGUE. Camps Go Global

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520967267

0520967267

OCLC:

985447785