Re: Cants

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:54:07 +0100 Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
writes:

> > The most salient is that imperial conquests involve forced
> subjugation, and
> > absorbtion into the parent empire, rather than the surgical (and
> almost
> > bloodless) removal of a few tyrants, and the establishment of
> independent,
> > free and fair elections.
>
> That might be a be all well and good for a definition "empire" in the
> imperialistic sense, but use of the title "emperor" does not
> necessarily imply
> a such. Tokugawa Japan, for instance, can hardly be described as
> imperialistic; yet westerners have been perfectly happpy to render
> _tenno_
> as "emperor" (and for that matter, in older material, also _shogun_).
yay! _tenno_! like in my sig (well thats actually _tenn0_, but who
cares...)!
actually, i think that in english an "emperor" doesn't always have to
rule an "empire"...

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