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
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