Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in empire, which have informed ongoing debates on the repressive practices of colonial rule and popular resistance against it.**

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Philip J. Havik ****(PhD Social Sciences, Leiden University, NL) is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (IHMT) of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon, Portugal, while also teaching at the same institution. His research engages with global health, public health, anthropology of health, history of tropical medicine and the colonial and post-colonial development of Lusophone African countries.

Helena Pinto Janeiro (PhD in Contemporary History) is a historian at the Diplomatic Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal and a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon. Her current research centres on the World Wars and the League of Nations; memorial museums and transitional justice; archives and oral history; and political prisons and camps.

Pedro Aires Oliveira (PhD in Contemporary History) is Associate Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon, Portugal, and an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History. He has authored, co-authored and edited several books on Portuguese foreign relations and overseas/imperial history, and has contributed to several international peer-review journals.

Irene Flunser Pimentel (PhD Institutional History and Contemporary Politics) is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Universidade NOVA in Lisbon, Portugal. She has (co-) authored several books on the Portuguese Political Police (PIDE/DGS), the Portuguese New State Dictatorship, Women's Organizations and Portugal during the Second World War.

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1. Prison and Law, Repression and Resistance: Colonialism and Beyond 2. The Penal World in the French Empire: A Comparative Study of French Transportation and its Legacy in Guyana and New Caledonia 3. Graves, Houses of Pain and Execution: Memories of the German Prisons after the Majimaji War in Tanzania (19041908) 4. The Productivity of Political Imprisonment: Stories from Rhodesia 5. Colonial Incarceration and Selective Memories: What Is Remembered? Who Is Forgotten? The Case of Peasant Women Deported to São Nicolau (Angola, 1969) 6. The Penal Origins of Colonial Model Villages: From Aborted Concentration Camps to Forced Resettlement in Angola (19301969) 7. Contextualising Apartheid at the End of Empire: Repression, 'Development' and the Bantustans