A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America

Greg Robinson

July, 2009
Cloth, 408 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12922-0
$29.95 / £19.95

A Note on Terminology

Introduction

1. Background to Confinement

2. The Decision to Remove Ethnic Japanese from the West Coast

3. Removal from the West Coast and Control of Ethnic Japanese Outside

4. The Camp Experience

5. Military Service and Legal Challenges

6. The End of Confinement and the Postwar Readjustment of Issei and Nisei

7. Redress and the Bitter Heritage

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• History

About the Author

Greg Robinson, a native of New York City, is associate professor of history at l'Université du Québec à Montréal and author of By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans.

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