Word: tokugawas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both a place and a time frame. It was the old name of the city we call Tokyo, and "Edo period" denotes the 2 1/2 centuries during which an absolute regime, founded there in the early 17th century by the military lord, or shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ruled over all Japan through 15 generations of his descendants. The symbolic moment at which the period began to close was 1853, when Commodore Perry's black ships, crewed by their blue-eyed, spindle-nosed, strange-smelling gaijin, the Americans, sailed into lower Edo Bay and broke the seal of isolation from the West...
...first book, Tokugawa Religion, was based on his Harvard graduate dissertation for a joint degree in sociology and Far Eastern languages, and it is still in print more than 40 years later...
...spends too little time on war in the 20th century, his unusual design -- a layering of material in chapters called "Stone," "Flesh," "Armies," "Iron" and so on -- permits him to range across time and distance to brilliant comparative effect. He roams from the Japanese suppression of firearms during the Tokugawa seclusion (an early success of gun $ control, unrepeatable and totalitarian) to the Aztec "Feast of the Flaying of Men"; from Sun Tzu to Clausewitz (whom he detests as the ideological godfather of modern war-as-policy); and from the dark, irrational roots of Roman military violence to the question...
...constellation of groups, a constellation as diverse and as dedicated to true multiculturalism as any magazine staff on campus (particularly, though by no means restricted to, the conservative ones), and they write about issues ranging from coming out as a Black lesbian in Louisiana to male homoerotics in Tokugawa Japan to racism within the bi/gay/lesbian community and its impact on out relationships with other minority groups...