Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age 9780824841591

This volume charts a course through never-before-surveyed historical territory: Japan’s medieval population, a topic so

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Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age
 9780824841591

Table of contents :
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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