155 Yet for over two centuries, from about 1637 to 1867, nearly the entire period in which feudal Japan was ruled from Edo (Tokyo) by the Tokugawa shoguns, the feudal lords (daimyo) and warrior class (bushi) ignored or disparaged the gun (matchlock) as a combat weapon. In Japan the sword was preeminent from the Shimabara Rebellion of 1637 to the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877-twenty-five years after...

Abstract The study examines the impact of agricultural associations two Swabian settlements – Mezőfény (Foieni) and Mezőpetri (Petrești) on local economy society. Agricultural played an important role at beginning process agrarian transformation after regime change in Romania. successor organisations socialist associations, now established a voluntary basis, were able to counteract impoverishme...