Concentration Camps (Very Short Introduction - 601)

Offers a global history of concentration camps, showing the differences and similarities between the various camp systems which have been used in the twentieth century
Sets the camps of the Third Reich into a global context, exploring the tradition they evolved from and also explaining what sets Nazi Germany apart from other regimes.
Shows how camps have emerged in different places in different times
Argues that whilst creators of camp systems did learn from one another to some extent, camps are a largely organic development of modern states
Explores how camps have been central to modern states' responses to crisis
Part of the Very Short Introductions series - over nine million copies sold worldwide
Originally published in hardback as Concentration Camps: A Short History