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Autore |
Sofsky Wolfgang |
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Titolo |
The Order of Terror : the Concentration Camp / / Wolfgang Sofsky ; translated by William Templer |
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-75317-7 |
9786612753176 |
1-4008-2218-1 |
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Edizione |
[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (369 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Internment camps |
Nazi concentration camps - Germany |
World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - Germany |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Entry; 2. Absolute Power; 3. On the History of the Concentration Camps; PART II: SPACE AND TIME; 4. Zones and Camp Plans; 5. Boundary and Gate; 6. The Block; 7. Camp Time; 8. Prisoner's Time; PART III: SOCIAL STRUCTURES; 9. The SS Personnel; 10. Classes and Classifications; 11. Self-Management and the Gradation of Power; 12. The Aristocracy; 13. Mass, Exchange, Dissociation; PART IV: WORK; 14. Work and Slavery; 15. The Beneficiaries; 16. Work Situations; PART V: Violence and Death |
17. The Muselmann 18. Epidemics; 19. Terror Punishment; 20. Violent Excesses; 21. Selection; 22. The Death Factory; Epilogue; Selected Glossary and Abbreviations; Abbreviations Used in Notes and Bibliography; Notes; Bibliography |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, ""terror labor,"" and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical |
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