Democratizing the Enemy (eBook)

The Japanese American Internment

Brian Masaru Hayashi (Autor)

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2010
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3774-8 (ISBN)

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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 "e;assembly centers"e; 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 racism, wartime hysteria, and leadership failure. Among the other surprising factors that played into the decision, Hayashi writes, were land development in the American West and plans for the American occupation of Japan. What was the long-term impact of America's actions? While many historians have explored that question, Hayashi takes a fresh look at how U.S. concentration camps affected not only their victims and American civil liberties, but also people living in locations as diverse as American Indian reservations and northeast Thailand.

Autor

Brian Masaru Hayashi is Associate Professor of Human Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, and author of For the Sake of Our Japanese Brethren: Assimilation, Nationalism, and Protestantism among the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1895-1942.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 2 line illus. 11 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: adage • Anti-Americanism • Attack on Pearl Harbor • Axis powers • Balilla • bataan death march • Bill Hosokawa • Black Tom explosion • bureaucrat • Camp Savage • Camp Upton • Carey McWilliams (journalist) • Civilian Conservation Corps • Clement J. Zablocki • Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians • Community council • Conscription • Demobilization • Disenchantment • Douglas MacArthur • draft evasion • Eighth Route Army • Empire of Japan • enemy alien • Espionage Agent • Executive Order 9066 • Friends of New Germany • Fujii • General Assistance • German American Bund • Governance • Housing authority • howard university • Immigration Act of 1924 • Immigration Law • imperialism • Imperial Japanese Navy • infanticide • internment • Internment of Japanese Americans • Iron Law of Oligarchy • Japanese Ambassador to the United States • Japanese American Citizens League • japanese americans • Japanese-Canadian Internment • Japanese diaspora • Japanese language • japanese nationalism • Japan–United States relations • Jewish refugees • John L. DeWitt • John Semer Farnsworth • Karl Yoneda • kibei • Legion of Honour • Liberty bond • Manzanar • Michi Weglyn • Military Intelligence Service (United States) • National Congress of American Indians • national security • New Laws • newspaper • nisei • nomura • occupation of japan • oil embargo • Ostracism • Permanent Settlement • Philleo Nash • Police strike • potsdam declaration • Prisoner of War • Punitive Expedition • Racism • Refugee • Reprisal • Russo-Japanese war • Selective Service System • Sitdown strike • Smith Act • Special Tasks • star chamber • surrender of japan • Tax • Togo Tanaka • Toshio Mori • United States • Utah • V. • War bond • war effort • warfare • War Plan Orange • War Relocation Authority • Western Defense Command • Works Progress Administration • World War II • yellow peril • Yuji Ichioka
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3774-X / 140083774X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3774-8 / 9781400837748