Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early Medieval Japan

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military ch...

Uncertain Powers presents a nuanced study of female leadership in medieval Japan. Sachiko Kawai explores the important political and economic roles...

Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1852, challengi...

Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain - Christopher Moran

Publisher: ABC-CLIOAuthor(s): John OhiorhenuanNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 160 x 235 x 26Cover type: HardbackRedescopera f...

Trade, Commerce, and the State in the Roman World - Andrew Wilson, Alan Bowman

Using the feminization of the Diyanet to understand the significance of a renewed presence of Islam in the Turkish public realm, this fascinating e...

Reducere. Medieval and early modern literature was fascinated with the material remains of the past. Scenes involving the discovery, description, circulation...

Provocative interrogation of how the Ottonian kingdom grew and flourished, focussing on the resources required.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAutho...

DescriptionOver fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-...

Autor: Pamela S. Turner

In Princes, Brokers, and Bureaucrats, the most thorough treatment of the political economy of Saudi Arabia to date, Steffen Hertog uncovers an unto...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jan (Max Planck Institute, Germany) DrahokoupilNumber of pages: 238Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 156 ...

Description Clientelistic Warfare analyzes the relationship between Colombian paramilitaries and the State in the period 1982-2007. Despite the att...

Reducere. In the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onwards, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a criti...

Reducere. Viata lui Minamoto Yoshitsune pare desprinsa dintr-o legenda: dupa ce familia lui e invinsa de clanul rival, Yoshitsune este trimis la o manastire ...

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In post-independence Ireland, the country house was not regarded as an integral part of the national heritage. Despite this, the relationship betwe...

DescriptionDemocracy for Sale is an on-the-ground account of Indonesian democracy, analyzing its election campaigns and behind-the-scenes machinati...

Reducere. The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize t...

From Chiefdom to State in Early Ireland - D. Blair Gibson

What did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the beli...

Reducere. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way ima...

Reducere. Situated in the fields of contemporary literary and cultural studies, the ten essays collected in Generations of Dissent shed light on the artistic...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Daniel Jordan SmithIllustration(s): 10 b/w illus.Number of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book covers the Paper 3 topic Poverty, public health and the state in Britain c1780-1939 in the Edexcel A level specification for first teachi...

Reducere. In this book, Birol Başkan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait,...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of medieval battles *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading In the time period betw...

Part Samurai history, part martial arts guide, this is THE book for anyone interested in Japan's fabled Samurai culture. Author Alexander Bennett i...

The articles in this volume, by scholars all pursuing careers in the United States, concern the theoretical approaches and methods of early medieva...

The Lost Samurai reveals the greatest untold story of Japan's legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai we...

See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it -- as well as those who fought against it -- in this explora...

DescriptionThis edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early...

Reducere. This highly original new book by a leading Shakespeare expert and cultural critic argues controversially that the 'samurai Shakespeare' of the Japa...

Reducere. The Samurai of legends continues to captivate us. We wonder if the stories we see depicted in pop culture creations, books, and museums are full of...

First full-length study of the use and perception of deceit in medieval warfare.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): James (Person) TittertonI...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 256Collection: Oxford Studies in Gender and International RelationsPublication date: 2018Dim...

This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700-1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural...

Reducere. The Samurai Series brings together three of the most important books dealing with the Samurai path and philosophy into one deluxe, illustrated hard...

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Samurai. Razboi si onoare in Japonia medievala. Paperback - Pamela S. Turner

Reducere. "A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life." --The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai, and...

DescriptionFor people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures tha...

An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.Illustrations: No

Reducere. Neighbours and strangers investigates social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700 to 1050, asking to what extent settlements, o...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and west...