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23%OFFAharon Ben-Ami - Social Change in a Hostile Environment: The Crusaders´ Kingdom of Jerusalem - 9780691648811 - V9780691648811
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Social Change in a Hostile Environment: The Crusaders´ Kingdom of Jerusalem

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Description for Social Change in a Hostile Environment: The Crusaders´ Kingdom of Jerusalem Hardback. Series: Princeton Studies on the Near East. Num Pages: 202 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 3H; HBJF1; HBLC1; JFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 371.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Studies on the Near East
Condition
New
Weight
371 g
Number of Pages
202
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691648811
SKU
V9780691648811
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