1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459611603321

Titolo

Strategic studies and public policy : the American experience

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky, : The University Press of Kentucky, 1982

ISBN

0-8131-6318-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Essays for the Third Century : America and a Changing World

Classificazione

355.43

Altri autori (Persone)

GrayColin S

Soggetti

Strategy

Strategi

Historie

USA

Electronic books.

United States Military policy

United States Foreign relations 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PART I. INTRODUCTION; 1. Catalysts of Inquiry; 2. Theory, Technology, and Policy; PART II. HISTORY; 3. Adjusting to the Bomb; 4. The Golden Age; 5. Limited War and Strategic Stability; 6. Arms Control and Central War; 7. From Theory to Practice; 8. The ""New Strategy""; 9. Term of Trial; 10. Unfinished Business; PART III. APPRAISAL; 11. Strategy and Action; 12. To Advance Knowledge, To Improve Policy; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

Strategic studies as a field of civilian scholarship has developed along distinctive lines in the United States since World War II. The rapid proliferation and increasing sophistication of weapons technology have required constant revision of strategic theory, while the shifting political climate, both internationally and in the United States, has had an equally powerful impact.One of the field's leading theorists now examines the history and development of American strategic studies, the varied roles assumed by civilian strategists, and their relationship with those charged with developing an



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779756603321

Autore

Miller Ian Jared <1970->

Titolo

The nature of the beasts : empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo / / Ian Jared Miller ; foreword by Harriet Ritvo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

9780520952102

9780520271869

9780520377523

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations

Collana

Asia--local studies/global themes

Disciplina

590.52/135

Soggetti

Zoos - Social aspects - Japan - History

Philosophy of nature - Japan - History

Nature and civilization - Japan - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Japan's Ecological Modernity -- Part One. The Nature of Civilization -- Part Two. The Culture of Total War -- Part Three. After Empire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 eye-opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation's capital-an institutional marker of national accomplishment-but also as a site for the propagation of a new "natural" order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the



primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan's unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan's most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet's resources.