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Prisoners Without Trial
Japanese Americans in World War II
1993
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Prisoners Without Trail is part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists. This book presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. With a revised final chapter and expanded recommended readings, Roger Daniels' updated edition examines a tragic event in our nation's past and thoughtfully asks if it could happen again.

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Roger Daniels
Author · 11 books
A past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as well as the Immigration History Society, Roger Daniels is the Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. He served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and is a planning committee member for the immigration museum on Ellis Island.
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