Nature of the beasts: empire and exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Octavo, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper.
Focusing on Tokyo's historic Ueno Zoo, Ian Miller shows how the facility played a critical role in legitimating Japan's project of imperial expansion in the public mind. Founded in 1882, the zoo served as one of the primary arenas of Japan's imperialist spectacle.