Aidan Forth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1065943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aidan Forth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aidan |
| FAMILY NAME | Forth |
| SIGNATURE | FORTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Concentration Camps
Legacy of Violence
This weighty and important book charts the bespattered history of British imperial violence, from the colonial small wars of the Victorian era to the brutal counterinsurgencies in the age of decolonization. Elkins focuses on moments of dramatic bloodletting rather than on more quotidian forms of political and economic exploitation or the discursive “violence” of words. Her extensive secondary source reading and archival research—including consult…
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Forum Author’s Response
This article reassesses the argument of Barbed-Wire Imperialism for a contemporary Canadian readership. The concentration and segregation of indigenous communities on demarcated reserves in western Canada exhibited many of the same dynamics as British concentration camps erected in the context of colonial famines, pandemics, and guerilla warfare. As Canada encounters its own colonial past in cities like Kitchener (named after the infamous British…
Barbed-Wire Imperialism
Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentration and refugee camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) within longer traditions of controlling the urban poor in metropolitan Britain and managing "suspect" populations in the empire. Workhouses and prisons, along with criminal tribe settlements and…
Concentration Camps
Concentration Camps: A Short History is a concise yet thought-provoking introduction to a sadly ubiquitous icon of the modern age. Along with Nazi Konzentrationslager and the Soviet Gulag, the book examines colonial concentration camps in nineteenth-century Africa and post–World War II enclosures in communist, fascist, and liberal-democratic venues. A concluding chapter pulls together the twentieth century’s many camps under the umbrella of a wor…
Barbed-Wire Imperialism
A Shared Malady
A Shared Malady: Concentration Camps in the British, Spanish, American and German EmpiresThis article explores the parameters and conduits of interimperial connections at the turn of the nineteenth century by focusing on the development of colonial concentration camps and the discourse that surrounded them. Print media; published books and official documents; direct correspondence; the movement of officials and their critics; foreign military att…
Concentration Camps
Concentration Camps: A Short History is a concise yet thought-provoking introduction to a sadly ubiquitous icon of the modern age. Along with Nazi Konzentrationslager and the Soviet Gulag, the book examines colonial concentration camps in nineteenth-century Africa and post–World War II enclosures in communist, fascist, and liberal-democratic venues. A concluding chapter pulls together the twentieth century’s many camps under the umbrella of a wor…
A Shared Malady
A Shared Malady: Concentration Camps in the British, Spanish, American and German EmpiresThis article explores the parameters and conduits of interimperial connections at the turn of the nineteenth century by focusing on the development of colonial concentration camps and the discourse that surrounded them. Print media; published books and official documents; direct correspondence; the movement of officials and their critics; foreign military att…
A Shared Malady
A Shared Malady: Concentration Camps in the British, Spanish, American and German EmpiresThis article explores the parameters and conduits of interimperial connections at the turn of the nineteenth century by focusing on the development of colonial concentration camps and the discourse that surrounded them. Print media; published books and official documents; direct correspondence; the movement of officials and their critics; foreign military att…
Barbed-Wire Imperialism
Concentration Camps
Concentration Camps: A Short History is a concise yet thought-provoking introduction to a sadly ubiquitous icon of the modern age. Along with Nazi Konzentrationslager and the Soviet Gulag, the book examines colonial concentration camps in nineteenth-century Africa and post–World War II enclosures in communist, fascist, and liberal-democratic venues. A concluding chapter pulls together the twentieth century’s many camps under the umbrella of a wor…
Barbed-Wire Imperialism
Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victorian Britain. Comparative and transnational in scope, Barbed-Wire Imperialism situates the concentration and refugee camps of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) within longer traditions of controlling the urban poor in metropolitan Britain and managing "suspect" populations in the empire. Workhouses and prisons, along with criminal tribe settlements and…
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Forum Author’s Response
This article reassesses the argument of Barbed-Wire Imperialism for a contemporary Canadian readership. The concentration and segregation of indigenous communities on demarcated reserves in western Canada exhibited many of the same dynamics as British concentration camps erected in the context of colonial famines, pandemics, and guerilla warfare. As Canada encounters its own colonial past in cities like Kitchener (named after the infamous British…
Legacy of Violence
This weighty and important book charts the bespattered history of British imperial violence, from the colonial small wars of the Victorian era to the brutal counterinsurgencies in the age of decolonization. Elkins focuses on moments of dramatic bloodletting rather than on more quotidian forms of political and economic exploitation or the discursive “violence” of words. Her extensive secondary source reading and archival research—including consult…
Concentration Camps
Colonialism (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Nazi concentration camps (3 works) · 1899-1902 (2 works) · 19th century (2 works)