Out of Line, Out of Place

Iris Rachamimov

ISBN 10: 1501765426 / ISBN 13: 9781501765421

Verlag: Cornell University Press, US, 2022

Beschreibung

With expert scholars and great sensitivity, Out of Line, Out of Place illuminates and analyzes how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a biopolitical tool of governance. Although the internment camp developed as a technology of containment, control, and punishment in the latter part of the nineteenth century mainly in colonial settings, it became universal and global during the Great War. Mass internment has long been recognized as a defining experience of World War II, but it was a fundamental experience of World War I as well. More than eight million soldiers became prisoners of war, more than a million civilians became internees, and several millions more were displaced from their homes, with many placed in securitized refugee camps. For the first time, Out of Line, Out of Place brings these different camps together in conversation. Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov emphasize that although there were differences among camps and varied logic of internment in individual countries, there were also striking similarities in how camps operated during the Great War.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781501765421

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Out of Line, Out of Place
• Verlag: Cornell University Press, US
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1501765426
• ISBN-13: 9781501765421
• Einband: Hardback
• Zustand: New
• Gewicht: 28 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

With expert scholars and great sensitivity, Out of Line, Out of Place illuminates and analyzes how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a biopolitical tool of governance. Although the internment camp developed as a technology of containment, control, and punishment in the latter part of the nineteenth century mainly in colonial settings, it became universal and global during the Great War.

Mass internment has long been recognized as a defining experience of World War II, but it was a fundamental experience of World War I as well. More than eight million soldiers became prisoners of war, more than a million civilians became internees, and several millions more were displaced from their homes, with many placed in securitized refugee camps. For the first time, Out of Line, Out of Place brings these different camps together in conversation. Rotem Kowner and Iris Rachamimov emphasize that although there were differences among camps and varied logic of internment in individual countries, there were also striking similarities in how camps operated during the Great War.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rotem Kowner is Professor of History and Japanese Studies at the University of Haifa. He is the author of From White to Yellow and Tsushima.

Iris Rachamimov is Associate Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of POWs and the Great War.