War and state building in medieval Japan
By: edited by John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth.
Contributors: Ferejohn, John A.; Rosenbluth, Frances McCall.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804763707; 9780804763714
Subjects: Peasants -- Japan -- History; Japan -- Politics and government -- 1185-1600; Japan -- History, Military -- To 1868
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: War and state building in medieval Japan / John Ferejohn and Frances Rosenbluth; title: They were soldiers once : the early samurai & the imperial court / Karl Friday; title: Competence over loyalty : lords and retainers in medieval Japan / Susumu Ike; title: Community vitality in medieval Japan / Tsuguharu Inaba; title: "Advance and be reborn in paradise; title: " : religious opposition to political consolidation in 16th century Japan / Carol Richmond Tsang; title: Autonomy and war in the 16th century Iga Region and the birth of the ninja phenomenon / Pierre Souyri; title: Instruments of change : organizational technology and the consolidation of regional power in Japan, 1333-1600 / Thomas Conlan.