RT Book
T1 Camps: a global history of mass confinement
T2 International themes and issues
JF International themes and issues
A1 Forth, Aidan
LA English
PP Toronto Buffalo London
PB University of Toronto Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1892120976
AB 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
AB "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."--
CN HV8705
SN 9781487588281
K1 Imprisonment : History
K1 Detention of persons : History
K1 Internment camps : History
K1 General & world history
K1 Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
K1 Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
K1 HISTORY / Holocaust
K1 HISTORY / Military / General
K1 HISTORY / Military / Other
K1 HISTORY / World
K1 History: specific events & topics
K1 Holocaust
K1 Military History
K1 Militärgeschichte
K1 The Holocaust
K1 Emprisonnement - Histoire
K1 Camps d'internement - Histoire
K1 Arbeitslager : Straflager : Konzentrationslager : Flüchtlingslager : Umerziehungslager : Geschichte