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Author Miller, Ian Jared, 1970- author.

Title The Nature of The Beasts : Empire and Exhibition at The Tokyo Imperial Zoo / Ian Jared Miller ; foreword by Harriet Ritvo
Published Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Series Asia: local studies/global themes ; 27
Asia--local studies/global themes ; 27
Contents Introduction : Japan's ecological modernity -- Japan's animal kingdom : the origins of ecological modernity and the birth of the zoo -- The dreamlife of imperialism : commerce, conquest, and the naturalization of ecological modernity -- Military animals : the zoological gardens and the culture of total war -- The great zoo massacre -- The children's zoo : elephant ambassadors and other creatures of the Allied occupation -- Pandas in the Anthropocene : Japan's "panda boom" and the limits of ecological modernity -- Epilogue : the sorrows of ecological modernity
Summary It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution - at once museum, laboratory, and prison - of the zoological garden. In this study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, the author offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-322) and index
Notes English
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Subject Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) -- History
SUBJECT Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) fast
Subject Zoos -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History
Philosophy of nature -- Japan -- History
Nature and civilization -- Japan -- History
NATURE -- Animals -- General.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Nature and civilization
Philosophy of nature
Zoos -- Social aspects
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013002001
ISBN 9780520952102
0520952103
129967738X
9781299677388
Other Titles Empire and Exhibition at The Tokyo Imperial Zoo