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War and state building in medieval Japan / edited by John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peasants--Japan--History.
- Peasants.
- Japan--Politics and government--1185-1600.
- Japan.
- Japan--History, Military--To 1868.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book introduces to statebuilding literature the case of Japan, demonstrating the ways in which farmer negotiations with warlords formed the bedrock of a medieval economy that enabled the consolidation of the state.
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; 1. War and State Building in Medieval Japan / John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth; 2. They Were Soldiers Once: The Early Samurai and the Imperial Court / Karl Friday; 3. Competence over Loyalty: Lords and Retainers in Medieval Japan / Susumu Ike; 4. Community Vitality in Medieval Japan / Tsuguharu Inaba; 5. "Advance and Be Reborn in Paradise . . . ": Religious Opposition to Political Consolidation in Sixteenth-Century Japan / Carol Richmond Tsang; 6. Autonomy and War in the Sixteenth-Century Iga Region and the Birth of the Ninja Phenomenon / Pierre Souyri
- 7. Instruments of Change: Organizational Technology and the Consolidation of Regional Power in Japan, 1333-1600 / Thomas ConlanPostscript / John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth; Glossary; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804774314
- 0804774315
- OCLC:
- 646788105
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