Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement by Forth, Aidan

Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement

The concentration of potentially "dangerous" populations - terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens...
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Author: Aidan Forth
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Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement by Forth, Aidan

Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement

€63,88

Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement

€63,88
Author: Aidan Forth
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The concentration of potentially "dangerous" populations - terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens - spans the modern era. The spectre of Nazi concentration camps and the Soviet Gulag obscures the lasting and widespread use of camps by other regimes. From Konzentrationslager in colonial Africa to strategic villages in Southeast Asia, from slave plantations in America to Uyghur sweatshops in Xinjiang, and from civilian internment in World War II to extraordinary rendition at Guantanamo Bay, mass detention - behind barbed wire, brick walls, or bamboo fences, or amid vast stretches of desert or ocean - is as diverse as it is ubiquitous.


Camps testify to the modern state's capacity for violence. But they also highlight alternate histories of humanitarian containment, whether for refugees, the poor, or other distressed groups. Located at the intersection between sympathy and security, such institutions highlight ongoing challenges to human rights and conflict management. Camps offers a short but compelling guide to the varied manifestations of concentration camps in the last two centuries, while tracing provocative transnational connections with related institutions like workhouses, migrant detention centres, and residential schools.



Author: Aidan Forth
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 07/10/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781487588281

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