Nature behind barbed wire
Subtitle: an environmental history of the Japanese American incarceration
By: Connie Y. Chiang
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780190842062; 9780190842079; 9780190842986; 9780190842086
Subjects: Weltkrieg; Concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945; Japaner; Environmental aspects; Internierung; Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01801850; World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Japanese Americans; Einwanderer; Human ecology; History
Description: "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 opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of confinement; title: Removal and displacement; title: Choosing sites, building camps; title: Maintaining the camps; title: Desert agriculture; title: Environmental patriotism; title: Outdoor recreation; title: Dispersal, resettlement, return; title: Emanating from the soil.