This volume charts a course through never-before-surveyed historical territory: Japan's medieval population, a topic so challenging that neither Japanese nor foreign scholars have investigated it in a comprehensive way. And yet, demography is an invaluable approach to the past because it provides a way--often the only way--to study the mass of people who did not belong to the political or religious elite. By synthesizing a vast cache of primary...
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16th Century Demography History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Social Science Social Sciences