Camps

A Global History of Mass Confinement

Aidan Forth

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University of Toronto Press
18 September 2024

General & world history; History: specific events & topics; The Holocaust; Military history

Series: International Themes and Issues

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.

By: Aidan Forth
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Volume: 6
Dimensions: Height: 213mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781487588281
ISBN 10: 1487588283
Series: International Themes and Issues
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 18 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Aidan Forth is an associate professor of British, imperial, and global history at MacEwan University.

Reviews for Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement

""Camps is far more than a global history of mass confinement. In carefully drawn case studies, it exposes modernity's condition of possibility in various carceral regimes that isolated and exploited dangerous - or potentially dangerous - groups. Whether by eliminating threats or reforming citizens, practices of coerced confinement made the modern world. A must-read.""--A. Dirk Moses, Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in International Relations, City College of New York, and author of The Problems of Genocide ""Camps is a pioneering work not only because of its truly sweeping perspective on the camp as the quintessential form of coerced settlement in the modern age, but also because Forth shows the mutual relevance of seemingly disconnected developments. Forth introduced me to much new material and, more importantly, forced me to rethink some of my basic assumptions.""--Robert Jan van Pelt, University Professor, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, and author of The Case for Auschwitz and The Barrack: 1572-1914