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Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350184930)
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xAs a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithologyfocuses 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.
Author: Annika A. Culver
ISBN-10: 1350184934
ISBN-13: 9781350184930
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2022
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2023
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.
Author: Annika A. Culver
ISBN-10: 1350184934
ISBN-13: 9781350184930
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2022
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2023
By Annika A. Culver
xAnnika A. Culver is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Florida State University, USA. She is the author of Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo (2013) - winner of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS) 2015 Book Prize. She is also the co-editor, along with Norman Smith, of Manchukuo Perspectives: Transnational Approaches to Literary Production (2019).
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