WWII Book Documenting Japanese American Internment "The Spoilage", First Edition, 1946

Dorothy Thomas Richard Nishimoto

First Edition

[Japanese American][World War II][nternment] Thomas, Dorothy S. and Nishimoto, Richard. The Spoilage: Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1946. First edition. 388 pages. Original red cloth binding with title stamped on cover and authors, title, and publisher stamped on spine in gold. No dust jacket. Thomas and Nishimoto set out to document the forced evacuation, resettlement, and internment imposed on Japanese Americans by the U.S. government during WWII. This volume was part of a series of publications which resulted from the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study funded by the University of California Berkeley. Sociologist Dorothy Thomas pulled data from records of Japanese Internment and from interviews with detainees, including collaborator Richard Nishimoto. Published in 1946, this study came on the heels of Japanese internment and gathered reliable, recent, first-person experiences in order to paint a picture of what scores of innocent American citizens of Japanese ancestry went through and lost as a result of resettlement. Minor staining to cloth boards, binding tight and pages clean. Overall very good condition. A 1946 book which documented the recent forced resettlement of Japanese Americans in WWII.

Item #22919

Price: $450.00