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Camp Harmony:

Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembly Center
  • ISBN-13: 9780252076725
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Louis Fiset
  • Price: AUD $58.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 13/09/2010
  • Format: Paperback 232 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]
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This book is the first full 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. Gathering archival evidence and eyewitness accounts, Louis Fiset reconstructs the events leading up to the incarceration as they unfolded on a local level. The book explores the daily lives of the more than seven thousand inmates at ''Camp Harmony,'' detailing how they worked, played, ate, and occasionally fought with each other and with their captors. Fiset also includes details on how army surveyors selected the center's site, oversaw its construction, and managed the transfer of inmates to the more permanent Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho.
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
''With a narrative style that is consistently crisp, clear, and cogent, this book brilliantly fills a significant void in the study of the Japanese American detention in World War II.'' Arthur A. Hansen, editor of the Japanese American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project
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