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Thurgood Marshall's Legacy
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Juan Williams's wonderfully interesting piece {Outlook, Jan. 21}
about Thurgood Marshall is correct that "white lawyers and legal
scholars" questioned Justice Marshall's competence in "tax law and
other complicated areas of federal jurisprudence." They vastly
underestimated his competence.
Last year at a securities conference, something similar happened
in a speech by a Chicago lawyer, and I was obliged to write a
correcting letter, which was graciously accepted by the speaker. I
quote the letter I wrote:
"You referred, I fear not seriously, to Justice Marshall as a
securities expert. While I ...
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Shogun: the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Ian Bottomley introduces an exhibition which reflects a special moment in Anglo-Japanese relations in the 17th century, echoed today by a unique loan arrangement between the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, resting place of the first significant Shogun.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...this summer to celebrate the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Shogun of Japan in the early...century. Two armours, a gift from the Tokugawa to James I of England and VI of Scotland...The presentation was made through Tokugawa Hidetada, but it was his father, Tokugawa...
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Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity, and the Danka System.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; Death and Social Order in Tokugawa Japan: Buddhism, Anti-Christianity...xvi + 566 pp. $55.00 cloth. In Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), Buddhism held...part in government rituals, and the Tokugawa government seems to have been little...
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Yoshihiro Tokugawa, Hirohito aide
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...former Grand Chamberlain Yoshihiro Tokugawa, died Friday of respiratory failure...The descendant of the feudal-era Tokugawa shoguns had been in poor health since his retirement in 1988. Tokugawa became chamberlain to Emperor Hirohito...
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Yoshihiro Tokugawa Dies; Aide to Emperor Hirohito
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; Yoshihiro Tokugawa, 89, the man who served as the late...The descendant of the feudal-era Tokugawa shoguns, he became chamberlain to Emperor...the morning of Aug. 15, 1945, Mr. Tokugawa blocked rebellious soldiers from seizing...
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Territoriality and collective identity in Tokugawa Japan.(Early Modernities)
Magazine article from: Daedalus
; Japan during the Tokugawa period (1603-1868) was, by Western...main islands was divided between the Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu) and about 270...understood. Sketching the outlines of the Tokugawa polity in this manner will illustrate...
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Servants, Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...contribution to our understanding of life in Tokugawa Japan. Equally important, he has formulated...that the rapid pace of urbanization in Tokugawa Japan resulted from two fundamental policies of the Tokugawa regime - is well supported and persuasive...
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Servants and Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...absent from the social landscape of the Tokugawa period: the urban commoners. Gary Leupp...Shophands, and Laborers in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan intends to fill this important...chapter of Leupp's book focuses on the Tokugawa policies that contributed to the creation...
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William R. Lindsey. Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Asian Ethnology
; ...Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan Honolulu: University of Hawai...of gender and sexuality in Japan's Tokugawa period (1600-1867) begins with an...plurality of women's existence during the Tokugawa period, but also articulate the ideals...
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Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan
Magazine article from: Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
; ...Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan Honolulu: University of Hawai...history of women's heterosexuality in the Tokugawa era. The study grows out of Lindsey...and popular practices through which Tokugawa culture constructed the seemingly antithetical...
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The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; ...Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan. By Duncan Ryuken Williams. Princeton...extraordinary expansion of the Soto Zen sect in Tokugawa Japan by looking at Soto Zen involvement...making it the largest Buddhist sect of the Tokugawa period. Williams' efforts in decentering...
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