War and State Building in Medieval Japan
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War and State Building in Medieval Japan

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
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War and State Building in Medieval Japan

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access War and State Building in Medieval Japan by John A. Ferejohn,Frances McCall Rosenbluth in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Historia & Historia japonesa. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780804763714, 9780804763707
eBook ISBN
9780804774314
Edition
1
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia japonesa

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. 1 - War and State Building in Medieval Japan
  7. 2 - They Were Soldiers Once
  8. 3 - Competence over Loyalty
  9. 4 - Community Vitality in Medieval Japan
  10. 5 - “Advance and Be Reborn in Paradise . . . ”
  11. 6 - Autonomy and War in the Sixteenth-Century Iga Region and the Birth of the Ninja Phenomenon
  12. 7 - Instruments of Change
  13. Postscript
  14. Glossary
  15. Index