Overview
- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-451) and index.
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.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316303590
0316303593 - Physical Description
- x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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