Concentration camps : a short history / / Dan Stone
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| Autore: |
Stone Dan
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| Titolo: |
Concentration camps : a short history / / Dan Stone
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (170 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Disciplina: | 361.61094 |
| Soggetto topico: | Internment camps |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | What is a concentration camp? -- Origins -- The Third Reich's world of camps -- The Gulag -- The wide world of camps -- 'An Auschwitz every three months' : society as camp? |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this book, Dan Stone gives a global history of concentration camps, and shows that it is not only 'mad dictators' who have set up camps, but instead all varieties of states, including liberal democracies, that have made use of them. Setting concentration camps against the longer history of incarceration, he explains how the ability of the modern state to control populations led to the creation of this extreme institution. Looking at their emergence and spread around the world, Stone argues that concentration camps serve the purpose, from the point of view of the state in crisis, of removing a section of the population that is perceived to be threatening, traitorous, or diseased. Drawing on contemporary accounts of camps, as well as the philosophical literature surrounding them, Stone considers the story camps tell us about the nature of the modern world as well as about specific regimes. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Concentration camps |
| ISBN: | 0-19-250802-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154722603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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