Japan's medieval population : famine, fertility, and warfare in a transformative age /

Annotation This volume charts a course through neverbefore-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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farris, William Wayne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
To 1600
Sozialgeschichte 1150-1600.
Geschichte 1150-1600.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Demography.
Population
Social conditions
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
Japan > Social conditions > To 1600.
Japan > Population > History.
Japan > History > 1185-1600.
Japon > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1600.
Japon > Histoire > 1185-1600.
Japan
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • New problems, same result: Mortality in early Medieval Japan, 1150-1280
  • Change within basic continuity: Agriculture, labor, commerce, and family life, 1150-1280
  • The dawn of a new era: lowered mortality and the "Muromachi Optimum," 1280-1450
  • The best of times: Agriculture, commerce, and fertility, 1280-1450
  • Return of the Demons of Yore: Morality during the warring states and unification eras, 1450-1600
  • The brighter side of life: Agriculture, commerce, and family life, 1450-1600.

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