{"product_id":"the-nature-of-the-beasts-9780520377523","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.  Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institutionat once museum, laboratory, and prisonof 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 capitalan institutional marker of national accomplishmentbut 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 specta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A triumph. . . .archival richness. . . .analytic dexterity and elegant writing.\" * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Nature of the Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e is a model of interdisciplinary environmental history and a must-read for anyone interested in the politics of the modern zoo.\" * Enviromental History *\u003cbr\u003e\"A rich political and cultural history of modern Japan.\" * Cross-Currents *\u003cbr\u003e\"Makes an important contribution to our understanding of how governments outside of the United States and Europe have used zoo animals to further political goals.\" * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Beasts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a path-breaking contribution to the history of science, environmental history, and Japanese history.\" * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"It is difficult to find fault with Miller's carefully researched, elegantly written, and convincingly argued monograph.\" * East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e“The book provides a rich canvas for a variety of cross-cultural comparisons.” * Monumenta Nipponica *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFigures\u003cbr\u003e \tForeword by Harriet Ritvo\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tNote on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e \tJapan’s Ecological Modernity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tI. Animals in the Anthropocene\u003cbr\u003e \tII. Ecological Modernity in Japan\u003cbr\u003e \tIII. The Natural World as Exhibition\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tPART ONE\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Nature of Civilization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCHAPTER ONE:\u003cbr\u003e \tJapan’s Animal Kingdom: The Origins of Ecological Modernity and the Birth of the Zoo\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tI.  Bringing Politics to Life\u003cbr\u003e \tII.  Sorting Animals Out in Meiji Japan\u003cbr\u003e \tIII.  Animals in the Exhibitionary Complex\u003cbr\u003e \tIV.  The Ueno Zoo\u003cbr\u003e \tV. Ishikawa Chiyomatsu and the Evolution of Exhibition\u003cbr\u003e \tVI. Bigot’s Japan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCHAPTER TWO:\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Dreamlife of Imperialism: Commerce, Conquest, and the Naturalization of Ecological Modernity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tI. The Dreamlife of Empire\u003cbr\u003e \tII. The Nature of Empire\u003cbr\u003e \tIII. Nature Behind Glass\u003cbr\u003e \tIV. Backstage at the Zoo\u003cbr\u003e \tV. The Illusion of Liberty\u003cbr\u003e \tVI. Imperial Trophies\u003cbr\u003e \tVII. Imperial Nature\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tPART TWO\u003cbr\u003e \tThe Culture of Total War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCHAPTER THREE:\u003cbr\u003e \tMilitary Animals: The Zoological Gardens and the Culture of Total War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tI. Military Animals\u003cbr\u003e \tII. Mobilizing the Animal World\u003cbr\u003e \tIII. The Eye of the Tiger\u003cbr\u003e \tIV. Animal Soldiers\u003cbr\u003e \tV. Horse Power\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCHAPTER FOUR: \u003cbr\u003e \tThe Great Zoo Massacre\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tI. Tokyo, 1943\u003cbr\u003e \tII. A Strange Sort of Ceremony\u003cbr\u003e \tIII. Mass-Mediated Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e \tIV. The Taxonomy of a Massacre\u003cbr\u003e \tV. The Killing Floor\u003cbr\u003e \tVI. And Then There Were Two\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tPART THREE\u003cbr\u003e \tAfter Empire\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCHAPTER FIVE: \u003cbr\u003e \tThe Children’s Zoo: Elephant Ambassadors and Other Creatures of the Allied Occupation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tI. Bambi Goes to Tokyo\u003cbr\u003e \tII. Empire After Empire\u003cbr\u003e \tIII. Neo-Colonial Potlatch\u003cbr\u003e \tIV. “Animal Kindergarten”\u003cbr\u003e \tV. Occupied Japan’s Elephant Mania\u003cbr\u003e \tVI. Elephant Ambassadors\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCHAPTER SIX: \u003cbr\u003e \tPandas in the Anthropocene: Japan’s “Panda Boom” and the Limits of Ecological Modernity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tI. The “Panda Boom”\u003cbr\u003e \tII. The Science of Charisma\u003cbr\u003e \tIII. Panda Diplomacy\u003cbr\u003e \tIV. “Living Stuffed Animals”\u003cbr\u003e \tV. The Biotechnology of Cute\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tEPILOGUE: \u003cbr\u003e \tThe Sorrows of Ecological Modernity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndext","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864918962519,"sku":"9780520377523","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520377523.jpg?v=1722273293","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nature-of-the-beasts-9780520377523","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}