Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain's Empire of Camps, 1876-1903 Volume 12

by Aidan Forth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520293975
• ISBN13: 9780520293977
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"