One long night : a global history of concentration camps
Title:
One long night : a global history of concentration camps
Author:
ISBN:
9780316303590
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
Summary:
Reveals history of concentration camps from 1890s Cuba to China and North Korea during the Cold War, discussing their use for civilian relocation and exposing their role as dehumanizing sites for political repression that have claimed millions of lives.
