Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe : Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps
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| Autore: | Muller Eric L |
| Titolo: | Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe : Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps |
| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 2023 |
| ©2023 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 940.53/1773089956 |
| 940.531773089956 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Role conflict |
| Japanese Americans - Legal status, laws, etc | |
| Internment camps | |
| Government attorneys | |
| Employees | |
| World War, 1939-1945 - Concentration camps - United States | |
| Japanese Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History - 20th century | |
| Japanese Americans - Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 | |
| Government attorneys - Psychology | |
| Government attorneys - United States - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | History |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION: The WRA and Japanese America -- BOOK ONE: JERRY HOUSEL AT HEART MOUNTAIN IN WYOMING -- CHAPTER ONE: Late October 1942 -- CHAPTER TWO: November 1942 -- CHAPTER THREE: February 1943 -- CHAPTER FOUR: March 1943 -- CHAPTER FIVE: May-June 1943 -- BOOK TWO: TED HAAS AND THOMAS MASUDA AT POSTON IN ARIZONA -- CHAPTER SIX: Late August 1942 -- CHAPTER SEVEN: November 1942 -- CHAPTER EIGHT: February 1943 -- CHAPTER NINE: June 1943 -- CHAPTER TEN: July 1943 -- BOOK THREE: JAMES HENDRICK TERRY AT GILA RIVER IN ARIZONA -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: December 1942 -- CHAPTER TWELVE: Late January 1943 -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Late February 1943 -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: May 1943 -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: December 1943 -- EPILOGUE -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Notes. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "In the Japanese American relocation camps of World War II, internees could, on any given day, be both clients and victims of their assigned War Relocation Authority lawyers. The morally ambiguous remit of these attorneys was wide and often contradictory, including overseeing the day-to-day administration of the camps, settling internal disputes between inmates, managing conflict between detainees and their government captors, and providing legal representation for prisoners outside of the camps. In re-creating the daily lives of these WRA attorneys, Eric L. Muller, a leading expert on Japanese American relocation and internment during World War II, seeks to capture historical subjects as three-dimensional, flawed human beings"-- |
| ISBN: | 9798890863454 |
| 9781469677156 | |
| 1469677156 | |
| 9781469673998 | |
| 1469673991 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911149933403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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