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
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Index