Social Change in a Hostile Environment

The Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem

Aharon Ben-Ami (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

202 Seiten

2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-64881-1 (ISBN)

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Through a comprehensive case study of the twelfth-century Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem, the author shows how a changing international system encourages or retards the development of social structures, thereby relating the Crusaders' experience to contemporary affairs. The Kingdom's social structure was influenced by intensive lslamic pressure on all sides, and its eventual collapse was due almost entirely to its failure to adapt its suddenly irrelevant feudal institutions to the demands of its new situation. Professor Ben-Ami suggests that the patterns exemplified in this conflict enable the exploration of the general idea that societies interlocked in a prolonged conflict tend to affect one another's social organization as they respond to developing needs implicated in the international system. Originally published in 1969. 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.
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*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. v*Contents, pg. vii*1. Inter-societal Relations, pg. 1*2. Historical Interlockage, pg. 20*3. Institutional Lag and Innovative Functions, pg. 47*4. The Critical Turning Points, pg. 77*5. International Systems and Induced Functions, pg. 118*6. The Collapse of the Kingdom, pg. 148*7. Conclusions, pg. 178*Selected Bibliography, pg. 189*Index, pg. 191

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Princeton Legacy Library
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	369 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-64881-6 / 0691648816
ISBN-13	978-0-691-64881-1 / 9780691648811
Zustand	Neuware