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• 日本
• 环境史
• 环境
• 科学史
• 历史
• 动物
• 动物史
• 英文版
• 野生动物
• 自然
• 生物
• 生态
• 动物行为
• 自然观察
• 野外探险
• 物种多样性
• 进化
• 自然保护

It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan’s emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution—at once museum, laboratory, and prison—of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan’s first modern zoo, Tokyo’s Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan’s rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. 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—an institutional marker of national accomplishment—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. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan’s unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan’s most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet’s resources.

哥伦比亚大学2004年博士论文【另，Nigel Rothfels的博士论文Savages and Beasts】

对研究北京动物园的发展变迁所展现的历史与时代变化很有启发，不仅仅是环境史方面

虽然内容和问题挺有意思但xxx modernity这种词真的看得要吐了。。。

对研究北京动物园的发展变迁所展现的历史与时代变化很有启发，不仅仅是环境史方面

如果这是2000年的书确实不错，但是2013年还在讲现代性建构了人和自然的区别云云……