Title The architecture of confinement : incarceration camps of the Pacific War / Anoma Pieris ; Lynne Horiuchi

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 374 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps Series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Carceral Archipelago -- 2 A Network of Internment Camps -- 3 Prisoner#x84;-of#x84;-War#x84; Resistance -- 4 Land and Labor -- 5 A Military Geography -- 6 The Colonial Prison -- 7 Empire of Camps -- 8 Prison City -- 9 Recovery, Redress and Commemoration -- 10 Intersectional Sovereignty -- 11 Border Politics -- Select Bibliography -- Index Summary "Two tropes circulating in discussions of the types of architecture that were purpose-built for confinement are the carceral archipelago and the panopticon prison, both used in scholarship on disciplinary institutions in ways useful for our focus. They have not yet been used for discussions of Pacific War incarceration environments. For this volume, a wide arc of the Pacific geography interpreted through carceral sites conjures a network of isolated camps reminiscent of Aleksandr Solzenitsyn's description of the Soviet Gulag system under Stalin"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2022) Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Pacific Area -- History Prisoner-of-war camps -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century Internment camps -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century Architecture and war -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century Prisoners of war -- Pacific Area -- History -- 20th century Prisoners of war -- North America -- History -- 20th century Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945. Architecture and war Internment camps Prisoner-of-war camps Prisoners of war North America Pacific Area Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Horiuchi, Lynne, author LC no. 2021039852 ISBN 9781009007191 100900719X 9781009020527 1009020528

Other Titles Incarceration camps of the Pacific War

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