Reviews for From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II

The average rating for From Concentration Camp to Campus: Japanese American Students and World War II based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-29 00:00:00 Alex Verse Allen presents a compelling history of Nisei student resettlement through an organizational history of the NJASRC.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-04-15 00:00:00 David Dovnarsky Jaeger argues that the "cultus virtutum", in European medieval education, shifted from being incarnate to textual from the 10th to the 12th century. In other words, the cult of virtue moved from teachers to texts across western Europe during this time. Jaeger presents this valuing of the virtue found in texts as if the phenomena were medicinal, treating the corruption of individuals' virtues. Jaeger quotes an extensive amount of primary sources, which helps to make his book the excellent historical analysis it is. He appears meandering at times, but then has the remarkable ability to collapse his observations into a forceful conclusion. I think the final chapter, on "court society", is difficult. While interesting, it does not seem to fit the rest of the book, rather, it seems to be a general extension of the thesis. Otherwise, I enjoyed reading this.