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Nature behind barbed wire : an environmental history of the Japanese American incarceration /

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Nature Behind Barbed Wire uses an environmental lens to reinterpret the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. It demonstrates how the complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained federal authority and provided Japanese Americans with opportuniti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chiang, Connie Y. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Concentration camps > United States > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Environmental aspects.
Human ecology > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The nature of confinement
  • Removal and displacement
  • Choosing sites, building camps
  • Maintaining the camps
  • Desert agriculture
  • Environmental patriotism
  • Outdoor recreation
  • Dispersal, resettlement, return
  • Emanating from the soil.