The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World
Title | The Origins of Japan’s Medieval World PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey P. Mass |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 556 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804743792 |
This pioneering collection of 15 essays argues that Japan's medieval age began in the 14th century rather than the 12th, and marks the beginning of a fundamentally new debate about how Japan's lengthy classical period finally ended.
The Origins of Japan's Medieval World
Title | The Origins of Japan's Medieval World PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey P. Mass |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN |
Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan
Title | Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan PDF eBook |
Author | Karl F. Friday |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2004-08-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134330235 |
Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates nearly twenty years of on-going research and draws on both new readings of primary sources and the most recent secondary scholarship. It overturns many of the stereotypes that have dominated views of the period. Friday analyzes Heian -, Kamakura- and Nambokucho-period warfare from five thematic angles. He examines the principles that justified armed conflict, the mechanisms used to raise and deploy armed forces, the weapons available to early medieval warriors, the means by which they obtained them, and the techniques and customs of battle. A thorough, accessible and informative review, this study highlights the complex casual relationships among the structures and sources of early medieval political power, technology, and the conduct of war.
Currents in Medieval Japanese History
Title | Currents in Medieval Japanese History PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Mark Berger |
Publisher | Ingram |
Total Pages | 498 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN | 9781932800524 |
"A publication of the University of Southern California East Asian Studies Center."
Medieval Japan
Title | Medieval Japan PDF eBook |
Author | John Whitney Hall |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804715119 |
A collection of essays tackles a neglected field of Japan's history.
War and State Building in Medieval Japan
Title | War and State Building in Medieval Japan PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Ferejohn |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2010-04-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0804774315 |
The nation state as we know it is a mere four or five hundred years old. Remarkably, a central government with vast territorial control emerged in Japan at around the same time as it did in Europe, through the process of mobilizing fiscal resources and manpower for bloody wars between the 16th and 17th centuries. This book, which brings Japan's case into conversation with the history of state building in Europe, points to similar factors that were present in both places: population growth eroded clientelistic relationships between farmers and estate holders, creating conditions for intense competition over territory; and in the ensuing instability and violence, farmers were driven to make Hobbesian bargains of taxes in exchange for physical security.
The Cambridge History of Japan
Title | The Cambridge History of Japan PDF eBook |
Author | John Whitney Hall |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 742 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521223546 |
Survey of the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society and culture.