Japan's empire of birds : aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and transwar ornithology / Annika A. Culver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Culver, Annika A., 1975- author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese--Foreign countries--History.

Zoologists--Japan--History--20th century.

Scientists--Japan--History--20th century.

Science and international relations--Japan--History--20th century.

Japan--Foreign relations--20th century.

Diplomatic relations.

Japanese--Foreign countries.

Science and international relations.

Scientists.

Zoologists.

Japan.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"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." -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Practice of Ornithology: Birds, Hunting, and Social Class in Prewar Japan and the Anglo-American World

2. Western Villas in Aristocratic Hands: Spaces of Imperial Mimesis and Informal Scientific Exchange

3. Cambridge, UK (1925

9)

-From "Scandalous Marquis" to Explorer-Scientist: Japanese in Western Imperial Settings

4. The Philippines (1929

31)

-A Japanese Ornithologist Encounters the American Empire

5. Manchukuo and the Japanese Empire (1932

40)

-Deploying Avian Imperialism in the Media, Military, and Scientific Expeditions

6. Wartime Tokyo and Defeat (1937

45)

-Mobilizing Imperial Japan's Ornithologists and Birds for War

7. Tokyo under the Allied Occupation (1945-52)

-Yankees with a Mission amongst Threadbare Aristocrats

8. Tokyo and the United States (1940s-70s)

-Cold War Ornithological Collaborations between Japanese and American Scientists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1350184934

9781350184930

OCLC:

1261306120

Publisher Number:

99991143873