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In commemoration of the United States bicentennial in 1976, the
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Bolitho's research interests included
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were more bureaucrats than barons, have ... assumed that they were the model servants of centralized feudalism" and that "an examination of their roles supports no such belief".
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daimyo and the bakufu. He argued that it was the collective power of the
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