Camps a global history of mass confinement / Aidan Forth.
| Author/creator | Forth, Aidan |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2024] |
| Description | x, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | International themes and issues ; 6 |
| Contents | Industrial enclosure: prisons, workhouses, and labor colonies -- Colonial compartments: slave plantations and native reservations -- Military captivity: soldiers and civilians in modern war -- The Soviet Gulag: revolution, labor, and punishment -- Konzentrationslager: conquest and genocide in the Nazi empire -- Asian archipelagos: war, empire, and revolution in the East -- (Post)colonial concentration: liberal camps from World War II to the war on terror -- Humanitarian containment: refugee camps and migrant detention. |
| Abstract | "The concentration of potentially 'dangerous' populations--terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens--spans the modern era. The spectre of Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet Gulag obscures the lasting and widespread use of camps by other regimes. 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--behind barbed wire, brick walls, or bamboo fences, or amid vast stretches of desert or ocean--is as diverse as it is ubiquitous. Camps testify to the modern state's capacity for violence. But they also highlight alternate histories of humanitarian containment, whether for refugees, the poor, or other distressed groups. Located at the intersection between sympathy and security, such institutions highlight ongoing challenges to human rights and conflict management. 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 like workhouses, migrant detention centres, and residential schools."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024391388 |
| ISBN | 9781487588281 (paper) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |