Jonas Kreienbaum

A Sad Fiasco

Colonial Concentration Camps in Southern Africa, 1900-1908

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• War and Genocide
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781836953760
• ISBN-10: 1836953763
• Artikelnr.: 74791755

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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