Thomas Donald Conlan is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. He holds a PhD from Stanford University, where his advisor was Jeffrey Mass, and he is a graduate of the University of Michigan. He is the author of In L
"By far the most thorough and detailed analysis of the warfare of
the Nanbokuchô era available in English. Conlan has restored to us
a significant segment of the Japanese historical experience, and
for that he deserves our thanks."--Harold Bolitho, Journal of
Japanese Studies
"Outstanding . . . Tom Conlan has written an extraordinarily
detailed and thorough history of warfare in the fourteenth century
from a wide variety of perspectives, including the function of the
individual warrior in everyday battle, the number and character of
casualties, the logistics of warfare, loyalty among warriors, and
fighting as a sacred pursuit. State of War makes a powerful
contention that militarization was the principal force in the
molding of fourteenth-century Japan."
--Paul Varley, Sen Soshitsu XV Professor of Japanese Cultural
History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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