Culture of Civil War in Kyoto

Name: Culture of Civil War in Kyoto
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ISBN: 9780520208773

ISBN-10: 0520208773

ISBN-13: 9780520208773

Edition: 1996

Authors: Mary Elizabeth Berry

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How do ordinary people respond to prolonged terror? The convulsion of Japan's "Warring States" period between 1467 and 1568 destroyed the medieval order and exposed the framework of an early modern polity. Mary Elizabeth Berry investigates the experience of upheaval in Kyoto during this time. Using diaries and urban records (extensively quoted in the text), Berry explores the violence of war, misrule, private justice, outlawry, and popular uprising. She also examines the structures of order, old and new, that abated chaos and abetted social transformation. The wartime culture of Kyoto comes to life in a panoramic study that covers the rebellion of the Lotus sectarians, the organization of…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/20/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 407
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Mary Elizabeth Berryis Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author ofThe Culture of Civil War in Kyoto(UC Press, 1994) andHideyoshi(1982).