Rushton Coulborn Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Scholarly study of repetitions of feudalism throughout human history and the conditions under which it arises, with essays by regional specialists written and revised after a series of conferences and collaborative discussions begun in 1948 at the Institute for Advanced Study and including Arnold Toynbee, Robert Oppenheimer, Walter Stewart, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, art historians, & historians; editor Coulborn was particularly interested in comparative history and disputed the idea that 'feudalism' was strictly a phenomenon of medieval Europe. The authors are Joseph R. Strayer, Rushton Coulborn, Edwin O. Reischauer, Derk Bodde, Burr C. Brundage, William F. Edgerton, Daniel Thorner, Ernst H. Kantorowicz, Marc Szeftel. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, minor wear & bumps to corners; jacket rubbed with faded spine, a few tiny tears & chips, large chip at head of spine; ink name (of University of Wisconsin anthropology professor Herbert S. Lewis - UW sociologist Howard Becker attended the 1950 Princeton conference from which the book emerged, though their tenures at the UW did not overlap). Text clean; xiv; [439] pages; index, bibliographies. Size: Large Octavo.…