Publications

Books and Edited Collections:
 

The Nature of the Beasts: Empire and Exhibition at the Tokyo Imperial Zoo

Ian Jared Miller (Author), Harriet Ritvo (Foreword)

July 2013

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520271869

 

Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power

Editors: Ian Jared Miller; Julia Adeney Thomas; Brett L Walker

July 2013

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9033-9780824838768.aspx

 

Teaching units based on The Nature of the Beasts, forthcoming.

Errata sheet, The Nature of the Beasts. (.pdf)

 

Articles and Book Chapters:

 

Didactic Nature: Exhibiting Nation and Empire at the Ueno Zoological Gardens

Ian J. Miller In: JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan ; 2005.  Gregory M. Pflugfelder (Editor), Brett L. Walker (Editor)

https://www.amazon.com/Japanimals-History-Michigan-Monograph-Japanese/dp/1929280319

 

Bringing Politics to Life: Dōbutsu and Other Creatures of the Japanese Enlightenment. 

Special issue of Japanese Studies on Japan and “the Great Convergence” edited by Julia Adeney Thomas.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10371397.2014.956210

 

“Writing Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Promises and Perils of Environmental History,” in Japan at Nature’s Edge.

 

Opinons and Essays:
 

Bitter Legacy, Injured Coast

New York Times Op-Ed [Internet]

Ian Jared Miller

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/opinion/20miller.html?_r=1