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Camp Harmony: Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center (Asian American Experience) Paperback – Illustrated, October 19, 2009

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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: arrests of Issei leaders, Nikkei response to the war dynamics, debates within the white community, and the forced evacuation of the Nikkei community from Bainbridge Island. 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 examines the inmates' community life, health care, and religious activities. He 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.

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232 pages
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English
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University of Illinois Press
Publication date

October 19, 2009
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6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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0252076729
ISBN-13

978-0252076725
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"An important historical work that should be read by all." --Nichi Bei Weekly

"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

About the Author

Louis Fiset is the author of Imprisoned Apart: The World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple and coeditor of Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest: Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians in the Twentieth Century. He has appointments in the University of Washington's dental and medical schools, where he helps train Alaska Natives to provide dental services in Bush Alaska.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press; 1st edition (October 19, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252076729
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252076725
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

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- #1,745 in Asian American Studies (Books)
- #13,733 in Native American History (Books)
- #85,896 in U.S. State & Local History

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John Oszajca

Japanese Internment

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Was an interesting read and a good companion to Nisei Daughter. Would have liked more photos.

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John Matson

Japanese American Internment

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2010

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Scholarly exposition from the outside administrative perspective as to the organization and workings of one of the assembly centers to which Japanese Americans were evacuated prior to more permanent camps during WWII. Availability of official governmental records comprises the basis of the report. As such, it is enlightening as to how official thinking evolved to remove all persons of Japanese ancestry from the west coast. It does not capture the human tragedies that resulted - the fear, sorrow, individual and family disorganization that were some of the consequences of that wholesale incarceration.

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Jmori

Sad time in American history

Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2017

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Love the illustration! Very true depiction of that terrible time.

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William G. Husted

Tone deaf writing

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2014

The writing was stilted, the sentences were often awkward. I am not sure a gifted editor could have fixed this mess. But just a decent attempt at unraveling the odd and poorly written text would have helped. I'm not talking about an occasional problem with the writing - instead it's hard to read two paragraphs without running into sentences that would receive poor marks in a high school term paper. What a shame. It's such an important topic.

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