Jeffrey Mass
{{Short description|American historian (1940–2001)}}
Jeffrey Paul Mass (June 29, 1940 – March 30, 2001) was an American academic, historian, author and Japanologist. He was Yamato Ichihashi Professor of Japanese History at Stanford University.Sanford, John. [http://news.stanford.edu/pr/01/obitmass411.html "Jeffrey Mass, a leading authority on Japanese medieval history, dead at 60,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927151509/http://news.stanford.edu/pr/01/obitmass411.html |date=2012-09-27 }} Stanford News Service. April 9, 2001; retrieved 2012-11-9.
Early life
Mass was born in New York City in 1940. He earned a bachelor's degree in history from Hamilton College in 1961, a master's degree in history from New York University in 1965, and he received his doctorate in history from Yale in 1971.Hamilton College, [http://www.hamilton.edu/commencement/honorary-degrees/mass "Hamilton College Honorary Degree Presented in memoriam to Jeffrey P. Mass ’62"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151023004446/https://www.hamilton.edu/commencement/honorary-degrees/mass |date=2015-10-23 }}; retrieved 2012-11-9.
Career
Mass joined the Stanford University faculty in 1973. He was made a full professor in 1981.
After 1987, he spent the late spring and summer of each year teaching at Oxford University.
During many years, his research was supported by a Fulbright Research Fellowship, a Mellon Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and other grants.
Selected works
In an overview of writings by and about Mass, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 30+ works in 110+ publications in 3 languages and 5,000+ library holdings.[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230150412/http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm |date=2010-12-30 }}: [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80-10317 Mass, Jeffrey P.]; retrieved 2012-11-9.
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- Warrior government in early medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Bakufu, shugo and jitō, 1974
- The Kamakura bakufu: a study in documents, 1976
- The development of Kamakura rule, 1180-1250: a history with documents, 1979
- Court and Bakufu in Japan: essays in Kamakura history, 1982
- The Bakufu in Japanese history, 1985
- Lordship and inheritance in Early Medieval Japan: a study of the Kamakura Soryō system, 1989
- Antiquity and anachronism in Japanese history, 1992
- The origins of Japan's medieval world: courtiers, clerics, warriors, and peasants in the fourteenth century, 1997
- Yoritomo and the founding of the first Bakufu: the origins of dual government in Japan, 1999
References
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External links
- [http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/archive/2001/Jeffrey.P.Mass.html Jeffrey P. Mass, 1940-2001 at MeijiGakuin.ac.jp]
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Category:20th-century American historians
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:American Japanologists