Japan's Empire of Birds : Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology (Hardcover)

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 Bibliography Index