Japan's Medieval Population : : Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age /

Japan's Medieval Population : : Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age / / William Wayne Farris.

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This volume charts a course through never-before-surveyed historical territory: Japan's medieval population, a topic so challenging that neither Japanese nor foreign scholars have investigated it in a comprehensive way. And yet, demography is an invaluable approach to the past because it provid...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Farris, William Wayne,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]
©2006
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 2 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. New Problems, Same Result Mortality in Early Medieval Japan, 1150-1280
  • 2. Change within Basic Continuity Agriculture, Labor, Commerce, and Family Life, 1150-1280
  • 3. The Dawn of a New Era Lowered Mortality and the "Muromachi Optimum," 1280-1450
  • 4. The Best of Times Agriculture, Commerce, and Fertility, 1280-1450
  • 5. Return of the Demons of Yore Mortality during the Warring States and Unification Eras, 1450-1600
  • 6. The Brighter Side of Life Agriculture, Commerce, and Family Life, 1450-1600
  • Epilogue
  • Endnotes
  • Character List
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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