Democratizing the Enemy The Japanese American Internment

Name: Democratizing the Enemy The Japanese American Internment
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ISBN: 9780691138237

ISBN-10: 0691138230

ISBN-13: 9780691138237

Edition: 2004

Authors: Brian Masaru Hayashi

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During World War II some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. These Japanese Americans lost millions of dollars in property and were forced to live in so-called "assembly centers" surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed sentries. In this insightful and groundbreaking work, Brian Hayashi reevaluates the three-year ordeal of interred Japanese Americans. Using previously undiscovered documents, he examines the forces behind the U.S. government's decision to establish internment camps. His conclusion: the motives of government officials and top military brass likely transcended the standard explanations of…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/21/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction


Prologue: Beyond Civil Rights



Governors and Their Advisers, 1918-1942



The Governed: Japanese Americans and Politics, 1880-1942



Establishing the Structures of Internment, from Limited to Mass Internment, 1942-1943



The Liberal Democratic Way of Management, 1942-1943



""Why Awake a Sleeping Lion?"" Governance during the Quiet Period, 1943-1944