{"product_id":"concentration-camps-a-global-history-hardcover","title":"Concentration Camps: A Global History - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Kramer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn popular perception concentration camps are synonymous with genocide and Nazi racial extermination. Yet concentration camps were and are a global phenomenon, not restricted to Nazi Germany, used at times even by democracies, with an astonishing range of functions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing together a wide range of multi-lingual archival research and synthesising a broad secondary literature, Alan Kramer provides here a comprehensive history of concentration camps, charting their first establishment at the beginning of the twentieth century on the colonial periphery, through their most extreme and inhuman instances in the mid-twentieth century, to their continued use today. Concentration camps are shown to be a truly transnational phenomenon that emerged both simultaneously (within and between imperial spheres--Britain, Spain, the USA, and Germany around 1900), and diachronically (from then to the First World War, the Gulag, and Nazi camps). Such camps existed (and exist) under a variety of regimes, often concomitant with empire-building by revolutionary dictatorships, as sites of genocide, mass murder, and performative violence, but also as central elements of utopian schemes of social and racial transformation. Integrating the perspective of perpetrators and the victims and contextualising them within the historiography of other carceral institutions, the book will reshape the way we think about concentration camps as part of modern civilization, past and present.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Kramer \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlan Kramer has published widely on the history of war, including the prize-winning \u003cem\u003eGerman Atrocities 1914. A History of Denial\u003c\/em\u003e (Yale UP, 2001, with co-author John Horne). His next book, \u003cem\u003eDynamic of Destruction. Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2007) applied a transnational perspective to war in Europe, 1912-23. As one of the founding editors of \u003cem\u003e1914-1918 Online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War\u003c\/em\u003e, he has been at the forefront of the turn to global history, which inspired also his co-edited books, \u003cem\u003eWelt der Lager. Zur \"Erfolgsgeschichte\" einer Institution\u003c\/em\u003e (Hamburger Edition, 2013), and \u003cem\u003eFascist Warfare\u003c\/em\u003e, 1922-1945 (Palgrave, 2019).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 640\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.25 x 9.38 x 6.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 28, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978335387949,"sku":"9780198800620","price":73.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/5WIGU0euCR9780198800620.webp?v=1775801743","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/concentration-camps-a-global-history-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}