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Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from
major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented
the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the
country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on
the medical literature on epidemic diseases, on previously unknown
evidence in Buddhist temple registers, and on rich documentary
evidence from contemporary observers in Japan.
Originally published in 1987.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
This book brings together new archaeological, historical and
palaeoecological approaches to the transition from the
Romano-British to medieval Celtic economy between the fourth and
ninth centuries AD, re-examining well-known sources of evidence and
introducing new material. While the emphasis is on the
Celtic-speaking areas of Britain after AD 400, the geographical and
chronological scope of the contributions is wide-ranging. The
articles include a reassessment of the end of the Romano-British
economy, suggesting that the conventional interpretation - a sudden
collapse in production in the early fifth century - is incorrect;
pollen analysis is a key approach in understanding the end of the
agricultural economy, and here, for the first time, all relevant
pollen sequences are catalogued and discussed. A fresh
investigation into imported pottery and glass and inscribed stone
monuments clarifies and understanding of these problematical
sources, while the nature of the contacts which brought imports
into Britain and Ireland is re-evaluated from new evidence which,
together with archaeological material from shipwrecks of AD 400-600
(of which a catalogue is presented here) and historical data,
indicate that Byzantine contacts with Britain are unlikely to have
been on entirely commercial grounds.
Ann Jannetta suggests that Japan's geography and isolation from
major world trade routes provided a cordon sanitaire that prevented
the worst diseases of the early modern world from penetrating the
country before the mid-nineteenth century. Her argument is based on
the medical literature on epidemic diseases, on previously unknown
evidence in Buddhist temple registers, and on rich documentary
evidence from contemporary observers in Japan. Originally published
in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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