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

Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (Berkeley Series in British Studies) (Volume 12)

Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope,Â Barbed-Wire ImperialismÂ 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 inspiredÂ and legitimized the practices of future regimes.
Country USA
Brand University of California Press
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2017-10-10
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780520293977

Country	USA
Brand	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2017-10-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780520293977

Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 (Berkeley Series in British Studies) (Volume 12)