One long night : a global history of concentration camps / Andrea Pitzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pitzer, Andrea, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nazi concentration camps--History--20th century.

Nazi concentration camps.

Internment camps--History--20th century.

Internment camps.

History.

Detention of persons--History--20th century.

Detention of persons.

Concentration camps--History--20th century.

Local Subjects:

Concentration camps--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-451) and index.

ISBN:

9780316303590

0316303593

OCLC:

968310783