{"product_id":"the-nature-of-the-beasts-9780520271869","title":"The Nature of the Beasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. This title offers a study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich political and cultural history of modern Japan.\" -- Fa-ti Fan Cross-Currents \"The Nature of Beasts is a critical intervention in global zoo, environmental and Japanese histories. It stands on its own as a fascinating and thoughtful history, but also provides opportunities for future scholarly exploration into patterns of human dominion over nature across the East Asian world.\" -- Noah Cincinnati Pacific Affairs \"This is a path-breaking contribution to the history of science, environmental history, and Japanese history.\" -- James R. Bartholomew Journal of Japanese Studies 41, no. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures    Foreword by Harriet Ritvo    Acknowledgements    Note on Transliteration       INTRODUCTION    Japan's Ecological Modernity       I. Animals in the Anthropocene    II. Ecological Modernity in Japan    III. The Natural World as Exhibition       PART ONE    The Nature of Civilization       CHAPTER ONE:    Japan's Animal Kingdom: The Origins of Ecological Modernity and the Birth of the Zoo       I.  Bringing Politics to Life    II.  Sorting Animals Out in Meiji Japan    III.  Animals in the Exhibitionary Complex    IV.  The Ueno Zoo    V. Ishikawa Chiyomatsu and the Evolution of Exhibition    VI. Bigot's Japan       CHAPTER TWO:    The Dreamlife of Imperialism: Commerce, Conquest, and the Naturalization of Ecological Modernity       I. The Dreamlife of Empire    II. The Nature of Empire    III. Nature Behind Glass    IV. Backstage at the Zoo    V. The Illusion of Liberty    VI. Imperial Trophies    VII. Imperial Nature       PART TWO    The Culture of Total War       CHAPTER THREE:    Military Animals: The Zoological Gardens and the Culture of Total War       I. Military Animals    II. Mobilizing the Animal World    III. The Eye of the Tiger    IV. Animal Soldiers    V. Horse Power       CHAPTER FOUR:     The Great Zoo Massacre       I. Tokyo, 1943    II. A Strange Sort of Ceremony    III. Mass-Mediated Sacrifice    IV. The Taxonomy of a Massacre    V. The Killing Floor    VI. And Then There Were Two       PART THREE    After Empire       CHAPTER FIVE:     The Children's Zoo: Elephant Ambassadors and Other Creatures of the Allied Occupation       I. Bambi Goes to Tokyo    II. Empire After Empire    III. Neo-Colonial Potlatch    IV. \"Animal Kindergarten\"    V. Occupied Japan's Elephant Mania    VI. Elephant Ambassadors       CHAPTER SIX:     Pandas in the Anthropocene: Japan's \"Panda Boom\" and the Limits of Ecological Modernity       I. The \"Panda Boom\"    II. The Science of Charisma    III. Panda Diplomacy    IV. \"Living Stuffed Animals\"    V. The Biotechnology of Cute       EPILOGUE:     The Sorrows of Ecological Modernity       Notes    Bibliography    Indext","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402856046935,"sku":"9780520271869","price":52.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nature-of-the-beasts-9780520271869","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}