【作者简介】

山村耕造（Kozo Yamamura）(1934-2017),曾任美国华盛顿大学日本研究与经济系退休教授，著作等身，出版了30多部关于亚洲和日本中世纪研究的著作，是研究日本史的权威人物之一。1978-1992年他开创以及主持日本研究项目并得到了同行的盛赞，此项目至今运作良好并且影响重大。【译者简介】

严忠志，四川外国语大学英语学院教授，1995年任中国符号学学会常务理事，2003年任中国英语教学研究会常务理事，《中国英语教学》编审委员会成员，国务院“政府特殊津贴”获得者。译有：《我

们应有的文化》《托尔斯泰或陀思妥耶夫斯基》《罗素传：孤独的精神（1872-1921）》《蒙娜丽莎发现史》《回声制造者》《地下世界》等。

Review

"Essays by six American and six Japanese specialists provide readers with significant new perspectives and detailed information on political and economic institutions, foreign relations, and cultural developments...will be required reading for anyone wishing to take the measure of medieval Japanese historiography in English." Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History

Product Description

This third volume in The Cambridge History of Japan is devoted to the three and a half centuries spanning the final decades of the twelfth century when the Kamakura bakufu was founded, to the mid-sixteenth century when civil wars raged following the effective demise of the Muromachi bakufu. Volume 3 contains thirteen specially commissioned essays written by leading Japanese and American scholars that survey the historical events and developments in medieval Japan's polity, economy, society, and culture, as well as its relations with its Asian neighbors. The essays reflect the most recent scholarly research on the history of this period. The volume creates a rich tapestry of the events that took place during these colorful centuries, when the warrior class ruled Japan, institutions underwent fundamental transformations, the economy grew steadily, and Japanese culture and society evolved with surprising vitality to leave legacies that still characterize and affect contemporary Japan.