Sad Fiasco - Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 19001908

Informationen zum Autor Jonas Kreienbaum is a lecturer at the Historical Institute of the University of Rostock. He holds a doctorate in modern history from Humboldt University Berlin and has worked extensively on colonial history, decolonization, and mass violence. Klappentext Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa-in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions-become widely known beyond a handful of specialists. Although they preceded the Third Reich by many decades, the camps' newfound notoriety has led many to ask to what extent they anticipated the horrors of the Holocaust. Were they designed for mass killing, a misbegotten attempt at modernization, or something else entirely? A Sad Fiasco confronts this difficult question head-on, reconstructing the actions of colonial officials in both British South Africa and German South-West Africa as well as the experiences of internees to explore both the similarities and the divergences between the African camps and their Nazi-era successors. Zusammenfassung Comparative studies on concentration camps have tended to neglect the African colonial experience at the turn of the twentieth century. A Sad Fiasco delves deeper into the daily lives led in the colonial concentration camps in southern Africa and the motives behind the mass extinction of thousands of internees. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Tables and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The Context: Colonial Wars in South Africa and South-West Africa Chapter 2. The Purpose of the Camps Chapter 3. How the Camps Functioned Chapter 4. Deadly Learning? Observation and Knowledge Transfer Chapter 5. Comparative Reflections on Colonial and National Socialist Camps Final Observations: "A Sad Fiasco" Bibliography Index

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jonas Kreienbaum
• Collaboration: Elizabeth Janik (Traduction)
• Edition: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781789203264
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-326-4
• Pages: 289
• Thème: War and Genocide
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; Germany, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Southern Africa, Colonialism and imperialism, War Crimes, African History, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing