@article{1440897,
      recid = {1440897},
      author = {Davie, Neil,},
      title = {French and American prisoners of war at Dartmoor Prison,  1805-1816 : the strangest experiment /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {For decades after the War of 1812, the Dartmoor Massacre  when British guards fired upon rioting American prisoners  of war caste a dark shadow over Anglo-American relations.  This book not only retells the story of that incident, but  also places it in a larger context of carceral history in  terms of prison design and in terms of the lived experience  of both the French and the Americans held in Dartmoor  Prison in the early nineteenth century. Paul A. Gilje,  University of Oklahoma, USA The Napoleonic Wars brought  unprecedented numbers of prisoners-of-war to Britain and  posed huge problems for the authorities. In this pioneering  study Neil Davie looks at one of the more radical  solutions, the construction on Dartmoor of a war prison  that would house 5000 men, many in cramped and insanitary  conditions. The prison achieved notoriety in 1815 when  rioting American prisoners were mown down, and nine killed,  in what became known as the Dartmoor Massacre. But violence  was never far away, and this book offers keen insights into  the social dynamics of life within the prison walls. Alan  Forrest, University of York, UK As Davie demonstrates in  this painstakingly researched book, Dartmoor is a  fascinating observatory for any historian interested in  carceral spaces, the organisation of prison societies, and  prison governmentality. Renaud Morieux, University of  Cambridge, UK This book explores the history of Dartmoor  War Prison (1805-16). This is not the well-known Victorian  convict prison, but a less familiar penal institution,  conceived and built nearly half a century earlier in the  midst of the long-running wars against France, and  destined, not for criminals, but for French and later  American prisoners of war. During a period of six and a  half years, more than 20,000 captives passed through its  gates. Drawing on contemporary official records from  Britain, France and the USA, and a wealth of prisoners  letters, diaries and memoirs (many of them studied here in  detail for the first time), this book examines how Dartmoor  War Prison was conceived and designed; how it was  administered both from London and on the ground; how the  fate of its prisoners intertwined with the military and  diplomatic history of the period; and finally how those  prisoners interacted with each other, with their captors,  and with the wider community. The history of the prison on  the moor is one marked by high hopes and noble intentions,  but also of neglect, hardship, disease and death. Neil  Davie is Professor of British History at Universite  Lumiere, Lyon, France.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1440897},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83891-1},
}