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Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History
Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher …
The First Samurai
A portrait of Japan's first significant samurai leader and his world Was samurai warrior Taira Masakado a quixotic megalomaniac or a hero swept up by events beyond his control? Did …
Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan
Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates …
Hired Swords
Tracing the evolution of state military institutions from the seventh to the twelfth centuries, this book challenges much of the received wisdom of Western scholarship on the …
Legacies of the Sword
Western scholars and educators are generally far less familiar with the samurai in his original-and, ostensibly, primary-role as warrior and masters of arms than in his other …
Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History
Scholarship on premodern Japan has grown spectacularly over the past four decades, in terms of both sophistication and volume. A new approach has developed, marked by a higher …
Core, Periphery, Frontier – Spatial Patterns of Power
Centre' and 'periphery', two notions essential in the discourse of power and domination, tend to be reificated as a static, inert relation of an active, dominating centre on one …
First Samurai
A portrait of Japan's first significant samurai leader and his worldWas samurai warrior Taira Masakado a quixotic megalomaniac or a hero swept up by events beyond his control? Did …
Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan
Karl Friday, an internationally recognised authority on Japanese warriors, provides the first comprehensive study of the topic to be published in English. This work incorporates …
The First Samurai
A portrait of Japan's first significant samurai leader and his world Was samurai warrior Taira Masakado a quixotic megalomaniac or a hero swept up by events beyond his control? Did …