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The nature of the beasts : empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo
- Title
- The nature of the beasts : empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo / Ian Jared Miller ; foreword by Harriet Ritvo.
- Author
- Miller, Ian Jared, 1970-
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xxvii, 322 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Asia: local studies/global themes ; 27
- Uniform Title
- Asia--local studies/global themes ; 27.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-1435
- ISBN
- 9780520271869 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520271866 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013002001
- 40022616993
- OCLC
- 833917969
- Author
- Miller, Ian Jared, 1970-
- Title
- The nature of the beasts : empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo / Ian Jared Miller ; foreword by Harriet Ritvo.
- Publisher
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Asia: local studies/global themes ; 27Asia--local studies/global themes ; 27.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022616993
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-1435