Camps
A Global History of Mass Confinement
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2024
- Category
- Other, Holocaust, General, World
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487588281
- Publish Date
- Jun 2024
- List Price
- $32.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487588304
- Publish Date
- Jun 2024
- List Price
- $26.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Aidan Forth is an associate professor of British, imperial, and global history at MacEwan University.