| Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 Volume 12 Contributor(s): Forth, Aidan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520293967 ISBN-13: 9780520293960 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - Victorian Era (1837-1901) - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - History | Asia - India & South Asia |
| Dewey: 365.34 |
| LCCN: 2017010810 |
| Series: Berkeley British Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.35 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Southern Africa - Cultural Region - Indian - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |