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100	1		_aStone, Dan
245	1	0	_aConcentration camps : _ba very short introduction _cby Dan Stone
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c©2019
300			_axvi, 139 p. : _bill. ; _c18 cm.
490	0		_aVery short introductions ; _v601
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 115-130) and index.
505	0		_a1. What is a concentration camp? -- 2. Origins -- 3. The Third Reich's world of camps -- 4. The Gulag -- 5. The wide world of camps -- 6. 'An Auschwitz every three months': society as camps?
520			_aConcentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most famous concentration camps are those under the Nazis, the use of concentration camps originated several decades before the Third Reich, in the Philippines and in the Boer War, and they have been used again in numerous locations, not least during the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda. Over the course of the twentieth century they have become defining symbols of humankind's lowest point and basest acts. This book 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, this book 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.
650		0	_aConcentration camps _xHistory.
650		7	_aConcentration camps. _2fast
650		7	_aPrisoners of war. _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast
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