Research Catalog

Title

Concentration camps : a short history / Dan Stone.

Author

Stone, Dan, 1971-

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

viii, 159 pages : illustrations; 21 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• History
• Konzentrationslager
• Camps d'internement > Histoire
• Camps de concentration nazis > Histoire
• Atrocities > History
• Nazi concentration camps > History
• Internment camps > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-150) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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?

ISBN

• 9780198790709
• 0198790708

LCCN

2016952148

OCLC

• 974208165
• SCSB-12021036

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library