Nature behind barbed wire : an environmental history of the Japanese American incarceration / Connie Y. Chiang.

The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in US history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in ten desolate camps in the nation's...

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Main Author: Chiang, Connie Y. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Series:Oxford Scholarship Online.
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