Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903Camps 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. |
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Detention and Relief at Indian Famine Camps 18761901 | 43 |
Plague Camps in India and South Africa 18961901 | 74 |
The Management and Anatomy of Colonial Camps c 1900 | 100 |
Civilian Concentration in Southern Africa 19001901 | 129 |
Life and Death in the Concentration Camps | 159 |
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