Cargando…
A sad fiasco : colonial concentration camps in southern Africa, 1900-1908 /
Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa'in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions'become widely known beyond a handful of specialists. Although they preceded the Third Reich by many decades, the camps' newfound notorie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2019.
|
| Edición: | English-language edition. |
| Colección: | War and genocide ;
v. 29. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa'in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions'become widely known beyond a handful of specialists. Although they preceded the Third Reich by many decades, the camps' newfound notoriety has led many to ask to what extent they anticipated the horrors of the Holocaust. Were they designed for mass killing, a misbegotten attempt at modernization, or something else entirely' A Sad Fiasco confronts this difficult question head-on, reconstructing the actions of colonial officials in both British South Africa and German South-West Africa as well as the experiences of internees to explore both the similarities and the divergences between the African camps and their Nazi-era successors. |
|---|---|
| Notas: | "Originally published in German as "Ein trauriges Fiasko": Koloniale Konzentrationslager im sudlichen Afrika 1900-1908." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781789203271 1789203279 |