This paper is a brief critical review essay of Aidan Forth’s recent award-winning work Barbed Wire Imperialism, winner of the 2019 Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association. The essay suggests a few potential slightly different emphases, trajectories, interpretive lenses and, perhaps, possibilities. Included among these are the centrality of the slave ship and transatlantic slavery for thinking about the roots of carcerality in the British Empire.Cet article est un court essai critique du récent ouvrage primé d’Aidan Forth, Barbed Wire Imperialism, lauréat du prix Ferguson 2019 de la Société historique du Canada. L’essai propose quelques potentialités légèrement différentes au niveau des priorités à mettre de l’avant, des trajec...
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This paper draws attention to the ways that free British emigrants made connections between a set of...
Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Digitizing Chinese Englishmen is an early-s...
That Conrad shared many of his ideas on the Congo Free State with reformer Roger Casement is well-kn...
This review essay assesses Aidan Forth’s Barbed-Wire Imperialism: Britain’s Empire of Camps, 1876–19...
This article reassesses the argument of Barbed-Wire Imperialism for a contemporary Canadian readersh...
Camps are emblems of the modern world, but they first appeared under the imperial tutelage of Victor...
British Colonial Governor Edward John Eyre's brutal suppression of a negro uprising in Jamaica in 18...
This essay will explore the relationship between enslavement, emancipation and the larger labour his...
This essay reconsiders Freedom’s Debtors through the lens of the three Ferguson Prize panelists’ com...
[Extract] In The Trouble with Empire, Antoinette Burton explores how violence accompanied the imperi...
This talk engages the concept of “imperial blowback,” the idea that great imperial powers eventually...
This article addresses how (‘selective’) British memory has served to emphasize the extreme violence...
My 25 minute paper explored a huge oil painting commissioned from official British war artist Eric K...
This research paper was completed and submitted at Nipissing University, and is made freely accessib...
Our current climate crisis is also a broader crisis of social inequality. It stems from material his...
This paper draws attention to the ways that free British emigrants made connections between a set of...
Curatorial note from Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Digitizing Chinese Englishmen is an early-s...
That Conrad shared many of his ideas on the Congo Free State with reformer Roger Casement is well-kn...