Jazz flute is so underrated.

The drums on Frelon Brun off this are probably my favorite in all of Jazz. Wonder what your favorite Williams performance might be?

Not an Ian Morris fan, I take it.

As a horse historian I wish you could read this book! An excellent account of the contradictions between military procurement of horses and horses as agricultural instrument. Maybe possible to run one of his articles through google translate?

www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-01-978...

and for that reason it is important to grasp the fundamental character/logic of tokugawa as distinct from, say, english feudalism (capitalism emerging from within was the common understanding at the time), because it was those conditions that were inherited and reorganized underneath the new regime

Yes I understood! But the universal logic narrative is the reason so much ink is spilt on how Japan capitalism HAD TO HAVE emerged from "within" (because that's how history works!) whereas most Koza-ha see Japan as being forcefully integrated into the world system in the bakumatsu.

This is precisely what led these authors to argue for "feudal remnants," (almost a proto-articulation of the mode of production theory) as they didn't believe capital or any social structure had a universal logic like the Rono-ha, who insisted feudalism had to disintegrate for capital to be born.

It isn't like they don't use the term that gets translated as "feudal" (封建社会, actually a Chinese hist. derived term), but they are highly conscious about how this is differentiated by the particularities of Japan hist both domestically and at times of integration/disintegration via the world system

Maruyama Masao and EH Norman both take from Koza-ha, which is what Otsuka Hisao was also taking from. Hence why he is concerned with the particularity of the social structure derived from material conditions and the social relations they engender rather than insisting on a universalizing logic.

The derivation of the nature/logic of Tokugawa society in its historical particularity rater than seeing it (a la Reischauer or vulgar Marxism) as an instantiation of feudalism.

I also agree with this. I loved classes as an undergraduate that were primary source forward, but not all classes lend themselves well to this. Moreover, assigned readings can often have copious primary source materials for students to engage with if you choose well.

I have re-edited this book and it is now ready for publication.

I had several professors very upset with me when they opened documents I wrote in Google Docs in MS Word to find so much of the formatting was lost. I swear it was not like that when I submitted the papers! This still happens to me occasionally even intra-MS word. This is why I prefer PDF.

Since you seem to be on some 安丸良夫 kick, his 日本の近代化についての帝国主義的歴史観 is a great read if you've never looked at it.