124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Animals and Empire: Pacific Russia, German New Guinea, and World War II Japan

Animals and Empire: Pacific Russia, German New Guinea, and World War II Japan

AHA Session 114

Saturday, January 9, 2010: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM

Columbia 2 (Marriott)

Chair:

Virginia D. Anderson, University of Colorado at Boulder

Papers:

The Last Sea Cow: The Politics of Eighteenth-Century Extinction
Ryan T. Jones, Appalachian State University

Island Life: Natural History in Nineteenth-Century German New Guinea
Nigel Rothfels, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The Afterlives of Elephants: Imperial Collapse and the Cult of Martyrdom in Wartime Japan
Ian Miller, Harvard University

Comment:

Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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