An empire of camps : British imperialism and the concentration of civilians, 1876-1903
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation looks to the origins of the concentration camp as a technology of British imperial rule. Concentrated civilian camps first emerged in British India in the 1870s and 1890s to care for and control famine refugees and plague "suspects." During the South African War (1899-1902) the technology of the camp was applied in a wartime setting. Forging imperial connections across the Indian Ocean, a group of "camp experts" traveled from India to South Africa to administer the camps. Concentration camps were afflicted with high rates of mortality that resulted in a political scandal, but British officials successfully reformed living conditions using the lessons of earlier episodes of encampment. In doing so, they helped legitimize the camp as a tenable procedure of imperial warfare and welfare.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2012 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Forth, Aidan Alexander Henry |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of History. |
| Primary advisor | Satia, Priya |
| Thesis advisor | Satia, Priya |
| Thesis advisor | Daughton, J. P. (James Patrick) |
| Thesis advisor | Stansky, Peter, 1932- |
| Advisor | Daughton, J. P. (James Patrick) |
| Advisor | Stansky, Peter, 1932- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Aidan Alexander Henry Forth. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of History. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2012. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2012 by Aidan Alexander Henry Forth
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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