Camp Harmony - Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center

Klappentext Presents a portrait of a single assembly center - located at the Western Washington fairgrounds at Puyallup! outside Seattle - that held Japanese Americans for four months prior to their transfer to a relocation center during World War II. This book reconstructs the events leading up to the incarceration as they unfolded on a local level. Zusammenfassung A detailed portrait of one assembly center for Japanese American internees Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword by Roger Daniels; Acknowledgments; Introduction1; Chapter 1. Prewar Japantown; Chapter 2. War Comes to Japantown; Chapter 3. Preparing for Exile; Chapter 4. Puyallup Assembly Center; Chapter 5. Exile; Chapter 6. Settling In; Chapter 7. Early Departures and a New Community; Chapter 8. Dissension; Chapter 9. Leaving Camp Harmony; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Louis Fiset
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2009
• EAN: 9780252034916
• ISBN: 978-0-252-03491-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Asian American Experience; Asian American Experience (Uni; Asian American Experience
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous