A Century of Camps
Publisher
:
JC Lattès
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782709618847
Description
Prison camps, concentration camps, and especially extermination camps have been used continuously in times of war, genocide and in totalitarian systems throughout the world. They have become known as the symbol of radical evil. This unprecedented work reviews the history of camps and studies their typology, nature and function. From Cuba to South Africa, from Spain to Germany and Russia—and to the most recent examples in Bosnia and Burma—this is the first detailed scientific study of a universal tragedy, an implacable mirror of contemporary history.
Author
Pierre Rigoulot : Pierre Rigoulot is a historian, co-author of The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press, 1999), and the author of Un pavé dans l’Histoire (Robert Laffont, 1998).
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