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Pitzer, Andrea.
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Concentration camps -- History -- 20th century.
Detention of persons -- History -- 20th century.
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Pitzer, Andrea.
Concentration camps -- History -- 20th century.
Detention of persons -- History -- 20th century.
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One
long
night
: a
global
history
of
concentration
camps
/ Andrea Pitzer.
by
Pitzer, Andrea.
Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Call #:
365.45 P692o
Subjects
Concentration
camps
--
History
-- 20th century.
Detention of persons --
History
-- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780316303590 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
x, 466 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-451) and index.
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.
Summary:
For over 100 years, at least
one
concentration
camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy,
camps
have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust,
history
tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of "never again." In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals the chronological and geopolitical
history
of
concentration
camps
. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints
concentration
camps
around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention
camps
in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation, or even the interned groups themselves,
camps
have instead served as brutal and dehumanizing sites that have claimed the lives of millions. Andrea Pitzer is the author of The Secret
History
of Vladimir Nabokov. She lives in Falls Church, Virginia.
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