RT Book
T1 Concentration camps: a short history
A1 Stone, Dan 1971-
LA English
PP Oxford
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2017
ED First edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/862984122
AB 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
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 135-150
CN HV8963
SN 0-19-879070-8
SN 978-0-19-879070-9
K1 Concentration Camps : History
K1 Konzentrationslager : Geschichte