Barbed-Wire Imperialism : Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 /

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"Some of the world's first refugee camps and concentration camps appeared in the British Empire in the late 19th century. Famine camps detained emaciated refugees and billeted relief applicants on public works projects; plague camps segregated populations suspected of harboring disease and...

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Autor principal: Forth, Aidan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Internment camps.
British colonies.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Internment camps > India > 19th century.
South African War, 1899-1902 > Concentration camps.
Internment camps > Africa > 19th century.
India.
Africa.
Great Britain > India > Colonies > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Britain's empire of camps
  • Concentrating the "dangerous classes" : the cultural and material foundations of British camps
  • "Barbed wire deterrents" : detention and relief at Indian famine campus, 1876-1901
  • "A source of horror and dread" : plague camps in Indian and South Africa, 1896-1901
  • Concentrated humanity : the management and anatomy of colonial campus, c. 1900
  • Camps in a time of war : civilian concentration in southern Africa, 1900-1901
  • "Only matched in times of famine and plague" : life and death in the concentration camps
  • "A system steadily perfected" : camp reform and the "new geniuses from India", 1901-1903
  • Epilogue : Camps go global : lessons, legacies, and forgotten solidarities.

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