
Camps
A Global History of Mass Confinement
Aidan Forth(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 11. June 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-1-4875-8828-1 (ISBN)
Description
The concentration of terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and other potentially "dangerous" populations spans the modern era. From Konzentrationslager in colonial Africa to strategic villages in Southeast Asia, from slave plantations in America to Uyghur sweatshops in Xinjiang, and from civilian internment in World War II to extraordinary rendition at Guantanamo Bay, mass detention is as diverse as it is ubiquitous.
Camps offers a short but compelling guide to the varied manifestations of concentration camps in the last two centuries, while tracing provocative transnational connections with related institutions such as workhouses, migrant detention centers, and residential schools.
Camps offers a short but compelling guide to the varied manifestations of concentration camps in the last two centuries, while tracing provocative transnational connections with related institutions such as workhouses, migrant detention centers, and residential schools.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
378 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-8828-1 (9781487588281)
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Person
Aidan Forth is an associate professor of British, imperial, and global history at MacEwan University.
Content
Introduction
1. Industrial Enclosure: Prisons, Workhouses, and Labour Colonies
2. Colonial Compartments: Slave Plantations and Native Reservations
3. Military Detention: Soldiers and Civilians in Modern War
4. The Soviet Gulag: Revolution, Labour, and Punishment
5. Konzentrationslager: Conquest and Genocide in the Nazi Empire
6. Asian Archipelagos: War, Empire, and Revolution in the East
7. Postcolonial Concentration: Liberal Camps from World War II to the War on Terror
8. Humanitarian Containment: Refugee Camps and Migrant Detention
Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting
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Index
1. Industrial Enclosure: Prisons, Workhouses, and Labour Colonies
2. Colonial Compartments: Slave Plantations and Native Reservations
3. Military Detention: Soldiers and Civilians in Modern War
4. The Soviet Gulag: Revolution, Labour, and Punishment
5. Konzentrationslager: Conquest and Genocide in the Nazi Empire
6. Asian Archipelagos: War, Empire, and Revolution in the East
7. Postcolonial Concentration: Liberal Camps from World War II to the War on Terror
8. Humanitarian Containment: Refugee Camps and Migrant Detention
Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting
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Index