The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan

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In this reevaluation of the estate system, which has long been recognized as the central economic institution of medieval Japan, Thomas Keirstead argues that estates, or shoen, constituted more than a type of landownership. Through an examination of rent rolls, land registers, maps, and other data d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keirstead, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Peasants.
Manors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY > General.
Peasants > Japan > History.
Manors > Japan > History.
Japan.
Japon > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1600.
Japan > History > To 1600.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In this reevaluation of the estate system, which has long been recognized as the central economic institution of medieval Japan, Thomas Keirstead argues that estates, or shoen, constituted more than a type of landownership. Through an examination of rent rolls, land registers, maps, and other data describing individual estates he reveals a cultural framework, one that produced and shaped meaning for residents and proprietors. Keirstead's discussion of peasant uprisings shows that the system, however, did not define a stable, closed structure, but was built upon contested terrain. Drawing on.
Physical Description:1 online resource (196 pages).
ISBN:9781400862719

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