ISBN:
1350184934
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9781350184930
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 313 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Series Statement:
SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan
DDC:
304.8095229
Keywords:
Japanese History
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Zoologists History 20th century
;
Scientists History 20th century
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Science and international relations History 20th century
;
Diplomatic relations
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Japanese ; Foreign countries
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Science and international relations
;
Scientists
;
Zoologists
;
History
;
Japan Foreign relations 20th century
;
Japan
Abstract:
Introduction: Birds of a feather flock together: Japanese aristocrats and the cosmopolitan science of empire -- The practice of ornithology: Birds, hunting, and social class in prewar Japan and the Anglo-American world -- Western villas in aristocratic hands: Spaces of imperial mimesis and informal scientific exchange -- Cambridge, UK (1925-1929) -- From "Scandalous Marquis" to explorer-scientist: Japanese in western imperial settings -- The Philippines (1929-1931) -- A Japanese ornithologist encounters the American empire -- Manchukuo and the Japanese empire (1932-1940) -- Deploying avian imperialism in the Media, military, and scientific expeditions -- Wartime Tokyo and defeat (1937-1945) -- Mobilizing imperial Japan's ornithologists and birds for war -- Tokyo and the United States (1940s-1970s) -- Yankees with a mission amongst threadbare aristocrats -- Tokyo and the United States (1940s-1970s) --- Cold war ornithological collaborations between Japanese and American scientists -- Conclusion: Tokyo and Cambridge, UK (1960-Present), fledgling global conservation policies.
Abstract:
"As a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese explorer-scientists, or cosmopolitan gentlemen of science, circulating between Japanese and British/American spaces in the transwar period from the 1920s to 1950s. Annika A. Culver examines a network of zoologists united by their practice of ornithology and aristocratic status. She goes on to explore issues of masculinity and race related to this amidst the backdrop of imperial Japan's interwar period of peaceful internationalism, the rise of fascism, the Japanese takeover of Manchuria, and war in China and the Pacific. Culver concludes by investigating how these scientists repurposed their aims during Japan's Allied Occupation and the Cold War. Inspired by geographer Doreen Massey, themes covered in the volume include social space and place in these specific locations and how identities transform to garner social capital and scientific credibility in transnational associations and travel for non-white scientists." --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
