Yoritomo and the Founding of the First BakufuThis book is a much expanded and wholly rewritten treatment of the subject of the author's first book, Warrior Government in Early Medieval Japan, published in 1974. In this new version, the "warrior" and "medieval" character of Japan's first shogunate is significantly de emphasized, thus requiring not only a new title, but also a new book. The author's new view of the final decades of twelfth century Japan is one of a less revolutionary set of