Format:
1 online resource (722 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781119022336
Series Statement:
New York Academy of Sciences Series
Content:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Conventions Used -- Series Editor's Preface -- Preface to the Revised Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- PART I: BEGINNINGS -- Introduction to Part I -- Chronology of Part I -- 1 GEOLOGY, CLIMATE, AND BIOTA -- Japan's Geography Today -- The Geological Heritage -- The Influence Of Climate and Ocean Currents -- The Biotic Inheritance -- 2 FROM ORIGINS TO AGRICULTURE -- Early Foragers -- Later Foragers -- The Emergence of Agriculture -- PART II: THE AGE OF DISPERSED AGRICULTURALISTS (400 BCE-1250 CE) -- Introduction to Part II -- Chronology of Part II -- 3 POLITICAL CONSOLIDATION TO 671 CE -- Continental Influences -- Material Foundations -- The Struggle for Hegemony -- 4 ESTABLISHING THE RITSURYŌ ORDER (672-750) -- A Political Narrative -- The Sources -- Establishing a Capital City -- Forming a State Church -- The Ritsuryō State at 750 -- The Broader Context -- 5 RITSURYŌ ADAPTATION AND DECAY (750-1250) -- A Political Narrative -- The Elements of Stability -- Forces for Change -- 6 CLASSICAL HIGHER CULTURE(750-1250) -- The Beginnings -- Flowering: The Sekkanke Heyday -- Broadening: The Later Years -- PART III: THE AGE OF INTENSIVE AGRICULTURE (1250-1890) -- Introduction to Part III -- Chronology of Part III -- 7 THE CENTURIES OF DISORDER (1250-1550) -- Trends in Production and Distribution -- A Political Narrative -- 8 MEDIEVAL HIGHER CULTURE(1250-1550) -- Kenmon Culture -- Religious Developments -- Vocal Literature -- 9 ESTABLISHING THE BAKUHAN ORDER (1550-1700) -- A Political Narrative -- The Bakuhan System at 1700 -- 10 THE AGE OF GROWTH(1590-1700) -- Dimensions of Expansion -- Kyoto Revived -- Enriching a Common Higher Culture -- 11 STASIS AND DECAY (1700-1850) -- Primary Production:Trends and Ramifications -- Cultural and Political Trends.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405123594
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781405123594
Language:
English
