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

Publication | Library Call Number: HV8963 .P58 2017

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.

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Format
Book
Author/Creator
Pitzer, Andrea, author.
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017
Language
English
Edition
First edition

About This Publication

Physical Description
x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
ISBN
9780316303590
0316303593
Notes
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.

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