Connie Y. Chiang is Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College. She is the author of Shaping the Shoreline: Fisheries and Tourism on the Monterey Coast.

• Acknowledgments


• Note on Terminology


• Introduction: The Nature of Confinement


• Chapter 1: Removal and Displacement


• Chapter 2: Choosing Sites, Building Camps


• Chapter 3: Maintaining the Camps


• Chapter 4: Desert Agriculture


• Chapter 5: Environmental Patriotism


• Chapter 6: Outdoor Recreation


• Chapter 7: Dispersal, Resettlement, Return


• Epilogue: Emanating from the Soil


• Notes


• Selected Bibliography


• Index

Nature Behind Barbed Wire uses an environmental lens to reinterpret the forced removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II.