This week on the Revised Intro to Japanese History: the social, religious, and economic changes of the Sengoku period. Though…
This week, we look at the flip side of the chaos of the Sengoku era in the form of two…
Under Britain’s most notorious era of criminal law, you could be sentenced to death for everything from destroying a fishpond…
This week on the Revised Introduction to Japanese History: our first foray into the age of civil war! We’re looking…
This week: the Muromachi bakufu comes crashing down, thanks to a combination of structural weaknesses and a shogun who is…
The law was out to take Emma Goldman down on a range of charges from distributing obscene material to assassination…
This week: Go-Daigo’s regime collapses, and a second samurai government, the Muromachi bakufu, emerges. How did Ashikaga Takauji successfully establish…
This week: the dramatic career of Emperor Go-Daigo, who brought down the Kamakura shogunate and ended Hojo rule in Japan.…
Something seemed a little less than ideal about governments and economies around the world in the late 1880s. One woman’s solution? Anarchy.
This week, we’re taking a look at some of the economic and social structures of Kamakura period Japan in order…