"[T]he book will trace the concentration camp's origins in the nineteenth-century colonial settings such as Australia and the United States, in Cuba, South Africa, and German South-West Africa (today Namibia) in the last years of the nineteenth and first years of the twentieth centuries, and in the genocide of Armenians during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. It will go on to examine the Nazi camp system, comparing labour camps devised to build the 'racial community' with concentration camps... to exclude and eventually eradicate unwanted others. It will show that the images and testimonies of the liberation of the Nazi camps have shaped our definition of concentration camps. It will... examine the Stalinist system of camps and 'special settlements' known as the and compare the totalitarian countries' use of camps with those of other... settings, such as the American internment of Japanese-American citizens during the Second World War, Franco's camps during and after the Spanish Civil War, Britain's use of camps for Jewish displaced persons in Cyprus trying to reach Palestine after the Second World War, the colonial powers' resort to camps during the wars of decolonization, such as in Algeria, Malaya, and Kenya, the Chinese use of camps during the Maoist period, the Khmer Rouge's attempt to turn the whole of Cambodia into a giant concentration camp in the 1970s, the reappearance of concentration camps during the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s, and the contemporary camp system in North Korea. I will show that this widespread use of concentration camps... tells us something about the modern state and about the ways... such practices are learned, borrowed, and spread..."