Barbed-wire imperialism : Britain's empire of camps, 1876-1903 / Aidan Forth.
Barbed-wire imperialism : Britain's empire of camps, 1876-1903 / Aidan Forth.
Barbed-wire imperialism : Britain's empire of camps, 1876-1903 / Aidan Forth.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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G 2018/4032
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English
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xiii, 352 pages : charts, illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction : Britain's empire of camps -- Concentrating the "dangerous classes" : the cultural and material foundations of British camps -- "Barbed wire deterrents" : detention and relief at Indian famine campus, 1876-1901 -- "A source of horror and dread" : plague camps in Indian and South Africa...
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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California
Date Published
[2017]
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"Some of the world's first refugee camps and concentration camps appeared in the British Empire in the late 19th century. Famine camps detained emaciated refugees and billeted relief applicants on public works projects; plague camps segregated populations suspected of harboring disease and accommodated those evacuated from unsanitary locales; conce...
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Barbed-wire imperialism : Britain's empire of camps, 1876-1903 / Aidan Forth.
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Berkeley series in British studies ; 12
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/4032
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74VKVANoZrlg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVANoZrlg
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ISBN
0520293975 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520293960 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520293967 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520293977 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
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365.34
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991024176111602626
