{"product_id":"democratizing-the-enemy-9780691138237","title":"Democratizing the Enemy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring World War II, some 120,000 Japanese Americans were forcibly removed from their homes and detained in concentration camps in several states. This book evaluates the three-year ordeal of interred Japanese Americans. It examines the forces behind the US government's decision to establish internment camps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2006 Robert G. Athearn Award, Western History Association \"Hayashi's book provides a newer, deeper insight into Japanese American history. Hayashi's book is a masterpiece and should be read by anyone writing on the Japanese American internment.\"--Eriko Yamamoto, History \"This fresh and far-reaching interpretation of the World War II Japanese American exclusion and detention experience achieves benchmark historiographical status... Brian Hayashi has written a book that dramatically reconfigures how the topic of the Japanese American internment will be approached in the coming generation of scholarship.\"--Arthur A. Hansen, Journal of American History \"Brian Masaru Hayashi's ambitious effort makes available much new archival data and presents original and provocative interpretations... Democratizing the Enemy is an original and stimulating examination of the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, and as such, it brings new perspectives to the topic. It should be read by all those interested in this unique and tumultuous period.\"--Stephen S. Fugita, Western Historical Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF FIGURES ix  LIST OF TABLES xi  PREFACE xiii  ABBREVIATIONS xvii  Introduction 1  PROLOGUE: Beyond Civil Rights 13  CHAPTER ONE: Governors and Their Advisers, 1918-1942 16  CHAPTER TWO: The Governed: Japanese Americans and Politics, 1880-1942 40  CHAPTER THREE: Establishing the Structures of Internment, from Limited to Mass Internment, 1942-1943 76  CHAPTER FOUR: The Liberal Democratic Way of Management, 1942-1943 107  CHAPTER FIVE: \"Why Awake a Sleeping Lion?\" Governance during the Quiet Period, 1943-1944 148  CHAPTER SIX: \"Taking Away the Candy\": Relocation, the Twilight of the Japanese Empire, and Japanese American Politics, 1944-1945 180  CHAPTER SEVEN: The Long Shadow of Internment 207  EPILOGUE: Toward Human Rights 219  NOTES 223  A NOTE ON SOURCES 295  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 305  INDEX 309","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359108890967,"sku":"9780691138237","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691138237.jpg?v=1754123619","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/democratizing-the-enemy-9780691138237","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}