Nikkei in the Interior West: Japanese Immigration and Community Building, 1882-1945

by Eric Walz

Eric Walz's Nikkei in the Interior West tells the story of more than twelve thousand Japanese immigrants who settled in the interior West--Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Utah. They came inland not as fugitives forced to relocate after Pearl Harbor but arrived decades before World War II as workers searching for a job or as picture brides looking to join husbands they had never met. Despite being isolated from their native country and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816529477
• ISBN13: 9780816529476
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"