Jeffrey Mass

Jeffrey Paul Mass (June 29, 1940 – March 30, 2001) was an American academic, historian, author and Japanologist.  He was Yamato Ichihashi Professor of Japanese History at Stanford University.Sanford, John.  "Jeffrey Mass, a leading authority on Japanese medieval history, dead at 60,"  Stanford News Service. April 9, 2001; retrieved 2012-11-9.

Early life
Mass was born in New York City in 1940. He earned a BA degree in history from Hamilton College in 1961. He received his PhD. in history from Yale University in 1971.Hamilton College,  "Hamilton College Honorary Degree Presented in memoriam to Jeffrey P. Mass ’62" ; retrieved 2012-11-9.

Career
Mass joined the Stanford University faculty in 1973.  He became a full professor in 1981.

Selected works
In an overview of writings by and about Mass, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 30+ works in 110+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities: Mass, Jeffrey P.; retrieved 2012-11-9. 
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 Warrior government in early medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Bakufu, shugo and jitō, 1974
 The Kamakura bakufu: a study in documents, 1976
 The development of Kamakura rule, 1180-1250: a history with documents, 1979
 Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history, 1982 
 The Bakufu in Japanese history, 1985
 Lordship and inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Soryō system, 1989
 Antiquity and anachronism in Japanese history, 1992
 The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors, and peasants in the fourteenth century, 1997 
 Yoritomo and the founding of the first Bakufu: the origins of dual government in Japan, 1999

References

Other websites
  Mass, Jeffrey P., 1940-2001 at Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) 
  Jeffrey P. Mass, 1940-2001 at MeijiGakuin.ac.jp 

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Category:American historians
Category:American Japanologists