The nature of the beasts : empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo /
Miller, Ian Jared,1970-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan)
Zoos
Philosophy of nature
Nature and civilization