The Nature of the Beasts : Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo /

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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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Autor principal: Miller, Ian Jared, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan)
Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) > History.
Nature et civilisation > Japon > Histoire.
Philosophie de la nature > Japon > Histoire.
Jardins zoologiques > Aspect social > Japon > Histoire.
Zoos > Social aspects.
Philosophy of nature.
Nature and civilization.
HISTORY > Asia > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > General.
NATURE > Animals > Wildlife.
NATURE > Animals > General.
Nature and civilization > Japan > History.
Philosophy of nature > Japan > History.
Zoos > Social aspects > Japan > History.
Japan.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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