LEADER 04189nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910953341903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780520952102$b(electronic book) 010 $z9780520271869$b(hardback) 010 $z9780520377523$b(paperback) 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520952102 035 $a(CKB)2550000001064490 035 $a(EBL)1218871 035 $a(OCoLC)851157936 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000917003 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11461527 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917003 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10877569 035 $a(PQKB)10494347 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000229698 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30852 035 $a(DE-B1597)519484 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520952102 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1218871 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10721341 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL498988 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1218871 035 $a(Perlego)550322 035 $a(iGPub)CSPLUS0075375 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001064490 100 $a20130329d2013 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe nature of the beasts $eempire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo /$fIan Jared Miller ; foreword by Harriet Ritvo 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations 225 0 $aAsia--local studies/global themes 311 08$aPrint version: Miller, Ian Jared, 1970- Nature of the beasts. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2013] 9780520271869 (DLC) 2013002001 (OCoLC)833917969 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tForeword --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote on Transliteration --$tIntroduction: Japan's Ecological Modernity --$tPart One. The Nature of Civilization --$tPart Two. The Culture of Total War --$tPart Three. After Empire --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIt is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution-at once museum, laboratory, and prison-of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation's capital-an institutional marker of national accomplishment-but also as a site for the propagation of a new "natural" order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan's unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan's most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet's resources. 410 0$aAsia: Local Studies / Global Themes. 606 $aZoos$xSocial aspects$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aPhilosophy of nature$zJapan$xHistory 606 $aNature and civilization$zJapan$xHistory 615 0$aZoos$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosophy of nature$xHistory. 615 0$aNature and civilization$xHistory. 676 $a590.52/135 700 $aMiller$b Ian Jared$f1970-$01894414 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910953341903321 996 $aThe nature of the beasts$94550640 997 $aUNINA