Barbed-Wire Imperialism

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Barbed-Wire Imperialism

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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.

SKU: 39428 Category: Tags: ,
Subtitle: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903
Author: Forth, Aidan
Year: 2022
ISBN: 9780520293977
Pages: 368
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Publisher's city: Berkeley
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