Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900

Name: Population, Disease, and Land in Early Japan, 645-900
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ISBN: 9780674690059

ISBN-10: 0674690052

ISBN-13: 9780674690059

Edition: 1985

Authors: William Wayne Farris

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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Publication date: 3/19/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

William Wayne Farris is Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.



Chronological List of Translated Court Orders


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Population and Agriculture before 645


Establishment of the Ritsuryo State



Fertility, Mortality, and Life Expectancy in the Early Eighth Century


Population Registration in East Asian History


Census-Taking in the Law Codes


Selection of the Population Data


Appraising the Quality of the Data


Adjusting the Data


Application of Stable Population Analysis


Fertility, Mortality, and Life Expectancy in Early Japan



Population Trends and Epidemic Disease


The Nature of the Evidence


The Arrival and Initial Ravages of the Disease


The Epidemic at Its Height


Government Medical Policy and Identification of the Disease


Mortality in the Great Epidemic


Other Epidemics in the Ritsuryo Period



Land Clearance


Land Clearance in the Law Codes


Subsequent Legislation


Early Examples of Land Clearance


Early Shoen


Land Clearance in the Early and Middle Heian Period



Land Use and Agricultural Technology


Artificially Irrigated Rice Farming


Naturally Irrigated Rice Farming


Dry Fields


Slash-and-Burn Agriculture


The Early Landscape


Land Use and Land Tenure



Rural Settlement


Migration in the Law Codes


Government Attempts to Enforce the Codes


Migrants and Their Motives


Rural Settlement Patterns


Settlement Patterns and Local Government


Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Glossary


Index