The Society of Prisoners: Anglo-French Wars and Incarceration in the Eighteenth Century

by Renaud Morieux

Book Overview

In the eighteenth century, as wars between Britain, France, and their allies raged across the world, hundreds of thousands of people were captured, detained, or exchanged. They were shipped across oceans, marched across continents, or held in an indeterminate limbo. The Society of Prisoners challenges us to rethink the paradoxes of the prisoner of war, defined at once as an enemy and as a fellow human being whose life must be spared.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192868039
• ISBN13: 9780192868039
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"