Social Change in a Hostile Environment (eBook)

The Crusaders' Kingdom of Jerusalem

Aharon Ben-Ami (Autor)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-7467-5 (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. 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies on the Near East
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies on the Near East
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Amalric • Annexation • Anomie • aristocracy • Ashkelon • assassination • Baghdad • Bastard feudalism • Battle of Hattin • Battle of Inab • belligerent • Blockade • Bourgeoisie • Byzantium • Caliphate • Centers of power • Cilicia • Collective Security • containment • countermovement • crisis of leadership • Cultural Lag • Cumans • decentralization • Defensive jihad • Demoralization (warfare) • Desecration • Diplomacy • disadvantage • Dissolution of the Monasteries • distrust • Ethnocentrism • Eunuch • Extraterritoriality • Failed State • feud • feudalism • fief • foreign policy • Fulk (archbishop of Reims) • Gilbert of Assailly • Great Power • hatred • Hittin • humiliation • Ideology • imperialism • inner party • Institution • internal conflict • International crisis • International Relations • intimidation • Jean Richard (historian) • Jihad • Joscelin (bishop of Paris) • Kingdom of Jerusalem • Knights Hospitaller • Leprosy • Looting • mercenary • militant • militarization • military occupation • Moral Re-Armament • National policy • Nobility • Normans • orgy • Pechenegs • power politics • power vacuum • principality • Protectorate • Rapprochement • Raynald of Châtillon • Refugee • Reinforcement • Religious War • Renunciation • resentment • ruling class • Seljuq dynasty • serfdom • Shirkuh • social change • Social Philosophy • Social Status • Social Structure • Sociology • state of emergency • The Other Hand • Tiberias • Vassal • Vested interest (communication theory) • war • War Crime • warfare • War of succession • William of Tyre
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-7467-X / 140087467X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-7467-5 / 9781400874675