#  Miller, Ian J. - The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo 

 





July 01, 2013

 

 

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Ian Jared Miller, Harriet Ritvo. University of California Press. July 2013.  
[Publisher's Link](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271869) 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 capital... but 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 spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. [Read more...](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271869)

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  **[Ian J. Miller](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/ian-miller)** **Professor of History** Miller is the author of The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo (University of California Press, 2013) and co-editor with Brett L. Walker and Julia Adeney Thomas of Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power (University of Hawaii Press, 2013). He is currently writing a book about energy and electricity in the making of modern Tokyo, Tokyo Electric: Japan in the Age of Global Energy.  [Read More...](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/ian-miller) 

 





 

 

 



 

 

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