Detention camps in Asia the conditions of confinement in modern Asian history
"Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole? This ambitio...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden ; Boston
Brill
2022
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Schriftenreihe: | Social sciences in Asia
volume 41 |
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Zusammenfassung: | "Why have Asian states - colonial and independent - imprisoned people on a massive scale in detention camps? How have detainees experienced the long months and years of captivity? And what does the creation of camps and the segregation of people in them mean for society as a whole? This ambitious book surveys the systems of detention camps set up in Asia from the beginning of the 20th century in The Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Malaya, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Timor, Korea and China" |
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Beschreibung: | XII, 314 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten (schwarz-weiß) 24 cm |
ISBN: | 9789004471726 978-90-04-47172-6 |