Aidan Forth is Assistant Professor of British imperial history at Loyola University Chicago.

"Closely reasoned and meticulously researched . . . Aidan Forth makes a compelling argument for revisiting the imperial origins of the concentration camp and for reassessing its significance, not just within the context of the Anglo-Boer War but as a historical phenomenon that concerns and troubles us all."

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Britain’s Empire of Camps1. Concentrating the “Dangerous Classes”: The Cultural and Material Foundations of British Camps2. “Barbed-Wire Deterrents”: Detention and Relief at Indian Famine Camps, 1876–19013. “A Source of Horror and Dread”: Plague Camps in India and South Africa, 1896–19014. Concentrated Humanity: The Management and Anatomy of Colonial Camps, c. 19005. Camps in a Time of War: Civilian Concentration in Southern Africa, 1900–19016. “Only Matched in Times of Famine and Plague”: Life and Death in the Concentration Camps7. “A System Steadily Perfected”: Camp Reform and the “New Geniuses from India,” 1901–1903Epilogue: Camps Go Global: Lessons, Legacies, and Forgotten SolidaritiesNotesWorks CitedIndex

Aidan Forth is Assistant Professor of British imperial history at Loyola University Chicago.

"Closely reasoned and meticulously researched . . . Aidan Forth makes a compelling argument for revisiting the imperial origins of the concentration camp and for reassessing its significance, not just within the context of the Anglo-Boer War but as a historical phenomenon that concerns and troubles us all."

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Britain’s Empire of Camps1. Concentrating the “Dangerous Classes”: The Cultural and Material Foundations of British Camps2. “Barbed-Wire Deterrents”: Detention and Relief at Indian Famine Camps, 1876–19013. “A Source of Horror and Dread”: Plague Camps in India and South Africa, 1896–19014. Concentrated Humanity: The Management and Anatomy of Colonial Camps, c. 19005. Camps in a Time of War: Civilian Concentration in Southern Africa, 1900–19016. “Only Matched in Times of Famine and Plague”: Life and Death in the Concentration Camps7. “A System Steadily Perfected”: Camp Reform and the “New Geniuses from India,” 1901–1903Epilogue: Camps Go Global: Lessons, Legacies, and Forgotten SolidaritiesNotesWorks CitedIndex

Aidan Forth is Assistant Professor of British imperial history at Loyola University Chicago.

"Closely reasoned and meticulously researched . . . Aidan Forth makes a compelling argument for revisiting the imperial origins of the concentration camp and for reassessing its significance, not just within the context of the Anglo-Boer War but as a historical phenomenon that concerns and troubles us all."

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Britain’s Empire of Camps1. Concentrating the “Dangerous Classes”: The Cultural and Material Foundations of British Camps2. “Barbed-Wire Deterrents”: Detention and Relief at Indian Famine Camps, 1876–19013. “A Source of Horror and Dread”: Plague Camps in India and South Africa, 1896–19014. Concentrated Humanity: The Management and Anatomy of Colonial Camps, c. 19005. Camps in a Time of War: Civilian Concentration in Southern Africa, 1900–19016. “Only Matched in Times of Famine and Plague”: Life and Death in the Concentration Camps7. “A System Steadily Perfected”: Camp Reform and the “New Geniuses from India,” 1901–1903Epilogue: Camps Go Global: Lessons, Legacies, and Forgotten SolidaritiesNotesWorks CitedIndex