Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 by Noel Perrin music a prelude to fame

a prelude to fame

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Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879 by Noel Perrin music a prelude to fameGiving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543 1879 by Noel Perrin 8vo. pp. xii, 122. b w illustrations. bibliography. paperback. Boston: David R. Godine, [2010]. Fifth Printing. New. ISBN 10: 0879237732 ISBN 13: 9780879237738 _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Was there ever a time when a technically sophisticated civilization reverted to an earlier, less advanced technology? There