

Concentration Camps
A Very Short Introduction
Author: Dan Stone
Narrator: Paul Woodson
Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 06/25/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Political Science, Genocide & War Crimes, Modern History, Holocaust
Synopsis
In this Very Short Introduction, Dan Stone gives a global history of concentration camps. 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.