One long night
Subtitle: a global history of concentration camps
By: Andrea Pitzer
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780316303590
Subjects: Concentration camps; Detention of persons; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-451) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Sailing to Guantánamo; title: Born of generals; title: Death and genocide in Southern Africa; title: The First World War and the war on civilians; title: Gulag rising; title: The architecture of Auschwitz; title: Increments of evil; title: Stepchildren of the gulag; title: Echoes of empire; title: Bastard children of the camps; title: Guantánamo Bay and the world.