Bibliograph

One long night, a global history of concentration camps, Andrea Pitzer

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One long night, a global history of concentration camps, Andrea Pitzer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-451) and index

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

One long night

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

968310783

Responsibility statement

Andrea Pitzer

Sub title

a global history of concentration camps

Summary

Reveals the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps from 1890s Cuba to the Philippines and southern Africa in the early twentieth century, to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War. Pitzer discusses their use for civilian relocation and exposing their role as dehumanizing sites for political repression that have claimed millions of lives. --Adapted from publisher description

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Sailing to Guantánamo -- Born of generals -- Death and genocide in Southern Africa -- The First World War and the war on civilians -- Gulag rising -- The architecture of Auschwitz -- Increments of evil -- Stepchildren of the gulag -- Echoes of empire -- Bastard children of the camps -- Guantánamo Bay and the world

Target audience

adult

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Global history of concentration camps

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