Heavenly Warriors: The Evolution of Japan's Military, 500-1300 Tapa dura - 1992

Harvard University Asia Center. Used - Very Good. 1992. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Scuffing to jacket, with small fray at bottom corner of front panel; light creasing along edges. Text block slightly cocked. Else clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Eastern Philosophy).

Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1992 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 16 x 23.5 cm.; 0.81 Kg.; 493 pages.; Used with signs of wear, namely on the outside text block. Interior as new. Signs of wear on the dust jacket that is now protected with a clearcover; Harvard East Asian Monographs, 157.; The word samurai suggests the colorful figure of a lightly armored, mounted archer attended by two or three foot soldiers engaging in ritualized one-on-one combat, the aristocracy fighting man of the Kamakura Shogunate (1185-1333). Although some historians have considered the rise of the samurai as analogous to the rather abrupt rise of feudal knights in medieval Western Europe, Farris provides "evolutionary model" for Japan that traces the step-by-step adaptive development of local strongmen over more than half a millennium. Through analyses of military technology and tactics, social organization, economic base, and political skills, mainly… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.