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The Nature of the Beasts : Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (360 pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780520952102 |