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Incarceration in Britain and its Empire

At the end of the nineteenth century a series of empires began to use confinement as a policy against the enemy, including the USA and Germany,[1] both of which would continue this practice into the twentieth century, especially in the... Read more →
Panikos Panayi
Published 17th March, 2026
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