Tragedy of Democracy Japanese Confinement in North America

Name: Tragedy of Democracy Japanese Confinement in North America
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ISBN: 9780231129237

ISBN-10: 0231129238

ISBN-13: 9780231129237

Edition: N/A

Authors: Greg Robinson

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The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U. S. history. Greg Robinson not only offers a bold new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective.Drawing on newly discovered material, Robinson provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for the first time the extent of the American government's surveillance of Japanese communities in the years leading up to war and the construction of what officials termed "concentration camps" for enemy aliens. He also considers the…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English