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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Asia--local studies/global themes ;
27. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.