Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology

ISBN-13: 9781350186118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 328 str.

Annika A. Culver; Christopher Gerteis

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction. Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Japanese Aristocrats and the Cosmopolitan Science of Empire 1. The Practice of Ornithology: Birds, Hunting, and Social Class in Prewar Japan and the Anglo-American World 2. Western Villas in Aristocratic Japanese Hands: Spaces of Imperial Mimesis and Informal Scientific Exchange 3. Cambridge, UK (1925-1929)—From "Scandalous Marquis" to Explorer-Scientist: Japanese in Western Imperial Settings 4. The Philippines (1929-1931)—A Japanese Ornithologist Encounters the American Empire 5. Manchukuo and the Japanese Empire (1932-1940)— Deploying Avian Imperialism in the Media, Military, and Scientific Expeditions 6. Wartime Tokyo and Defeat (1937-1945)—Mobilizing Imperial Japan’s Ornithologists and Birds for the War Effort 7. Tokyo under the Allied Occupation (1945-1952)—Yankees with a Mission amongst Threadbare Aristocrats 8. Tokyo and the US (1940s-1970s)—Cold War Ornithological Collaborations between Japanese and American Scientists Conclusion. Tokyo and Cambridge, UK (1950s-1970s)—Fledging Global Conservation Policies Bibliography Index