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    Camps
    A Global History of Mass Confinement

    Aidan Forth (Author)

    9781487588281

    Paperback / softback, published 11 June 2024

    296 pages
    21.3 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg

    The concentration of terrorists, political suspects, ethnic minorities, prisoners of war, enemy aliens, and other potentially "dangerous" populations spans the modern era. 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 is as diverse as it is ubiquitous.

    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 such as workhouses, migrant detention centers, and residential schools.

    Introduction

    1. Industrial Enclosure: Prisons, Workhouses, and Labour Colonies

    2. Colonial Compartments: Slave Plantations and Native Reservations

    3. Military Detention: Soldiers and Civilians in Modern War

    4. The Soviet Gulag: Revolution, Labour, and Punishment

    5. Konzentrationslager: Conquest and Genocide in the Nazi Empire

    6. Asian Archipelagos: War, Empire, and Revolution in the East

    7. Postcolonial Concentration: Liberal Camps from World War II to the War on Terror

    8. Humanitarian Containment: Refugee Camps and Migrant Detention

    Conclusion: Remembering and Forgetting

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