Format:
1 online resource (194 pages)
ISBN:
9780804774314
Content:
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.
Content:
Intro -- 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 Conlan -- Postscript / John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth -- Glossary -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804763707
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804763707
Language:
English
