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Author:

Shapinsky, Peter D., 1974- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014036327

Title:

Lords of the sea : pirates, violence, and commerce in late medieval Japan / Peter D. Shapinsky.

Publisher:

Center for Japanese StudiesThe University of Michigan,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 327 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pirates--Japan--History.
Seafaring life--Japan--History.
Murakami family.
Social change--Japan--History.
Violence--Japan--History.
Japan--History--1185-1600.
Inland Sea (Japan)--History.
Japan--History, Naval--To 1868.
Japan--History.--History.
Murakami family.
Commerce.
Pirates.
Seafaring life.
Social change.
Violence.
Japan.
Pacific Ocean--Inland Sea.
Politik.
Seeräuber.
Sozioökonomischer Wandel.
Japan.
To 1868
History.
Naval history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Welcome to "The Pirate Isles" -- Japanese pirates and seascapes -- Pirates and purveyors : commerce, lordship, and maritime estates in late medieval Japan -- With the sea as their domain : the Noshima Murakami in the sixteenth century -- Pirates, guns, and ironclads : sea lords and the military revolution in sixteenth-century Japan -- Putting the Japanese in "Japanese pirates" -- Taming Leviathan : the transformations of sea lords in early modern Japan -- Glossary.

Summary:

"Lords of the Sea revises our understanding of the epochal political, economic, and cultural transformations of Japan's late medieval period (1300-1600) by shifting the conventional land-based analytical framework to one centered on the perspectives of seafarers usually dismissed as 'pirates'"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; number 76

ISBN:

1929280815
9781929280810
1929280807
9781929280803

OCLC:

(OCoLC)881824206

LCCN:

2014016634

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)