Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction Stone Dan Professor of Modern History Royal Holloway University of LondonPaperback
Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction Stone Dan Professor of Modern History Royal Holloway University of LondonPaperback Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring…
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Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction Stone Dan Professor of Modern History Royal Holloway University of LondonPaperback
Concentration 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. Over the course of the twentieth century they have become defining symbols of humankind's lowest point and basest acts.In this Very Short Introduction, 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. 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.
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