Aidan Forth

Camps

A Global History of Mass Confinement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Camps offers a global and comparative history of mass confinement, highlighting the diverse but ubiquitous enclosures of colonial, democratic, and authoritarian regimes from the eighteenth century to the present.

Produktdetails

• International Themes and Issues
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 138mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781487588281
• ISBN-10: 1487588283
• Artikelnr.: 69230415

Autorenporträt

Aidan Forth is an associate professor of British, imperial, and global history at MacEwan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Industrial Enclosure: Prisons, Workhouses, and Labour Colonies
2. Colonial Compartments: Slave Plantations and Native Reservations
3. Military Detention: Soldiers and Civilians in Modern War
4. The Soviet Gulag: Revolution, Labour, and Punishment
5. Konzentrationslager: Conquest and Genocide in the Nazi Empire
6. Asian Archipelagos: War, Empire, and Revolution in the East
7. Postcolonial Concentration: Liberal Camps from World War II to the War
on Terror
8. Humanitarian Containment: Refugee Camps and Migrant Detention
Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting
Select Bibliography
Index