Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan ISBN: 9780804763868 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Stanford University Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: History;
Examining local politics in three Japanese domains (Yonezawa, Tokushima, and Hirosaki), this book shows how warlords adapted the theory and practice of warrior rule to the peacetime challenges of demographic change and rapid economic growth in the mid-Tokugawa period.
Mark Ravina is Associate Professor of History at Emory University.