Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement
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.

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Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement
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.

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Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement

Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement

by Aidan Forth
Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement

Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement

by Aidan Forth

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781487588281
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 07/10/2024
Series: International Themes and Issues , #6
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Aidan Forth is an associate professor of British, imperial, and global history at MacEwan University.

Table of Contents

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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