Binding: Paperback
Description: Camps are emblems of the modern world but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope Barbed - Wire Imperialism 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 inspired and legitimized the practices of future regimes.
Title: Barbed - Wire Imperialism Britain's Empire Of Camps 1876 - 1903
Author(s): Forth Aidan
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520293977
Pages: 368 Pages, 34b-W Illus
Publication Date: 10/10/2017
Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies
Category: History