Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
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Asia: local studies/global themes ; 27 |
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Asia--local studies/global themes ; 27
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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 |
Analysis |
books about the environment |
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books for history lovers |
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books for reluctant readers |
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east asian history |
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easy to read |
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engaging |
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gifts for friends |
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global history |
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historical novels |
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history and politics |
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humans and natural environment |
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imperial zoological gardens |
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japanese culture |
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japanese empire |
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japanese history |
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japanese politics |
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japanese zoos |
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japans emergence into the world |
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leisure reads |
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modernization of japan |
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natural environment |
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rapid modernization |
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shaping japan |
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vacation books |
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zoology |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-322) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) -- History
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Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) |
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Zoos -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History
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Philosophy of nature -- Japan -- History
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Nature and civilization -- Japan -- History
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NATURE -- Animals -- General.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Nature and civilization
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Philosophy of nature
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Zoos -- Social aspects
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Japan
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2013002001 |
ISBN |
9780520952102 |
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0520952103 |
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129967738X |
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9781299677388 |
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