ゲイリー・P・リュープ（タフツ大学）・陶徳民（関西大学）共編。国内外の60人以上の専門家の寄稿で示す、近世日本の国際的な研究の到達点。風景、経済、芸術、文学、宗教、思想、教育、科学にわたる諸相。The Tokugawa World demonstrates how Japan's early modern society took shape and evolved: a world of low and high cultures, comic books and Confucian academies, soba restaurants and imperial music recitals, rigid enforcement of social hierarchy yet also ongoing resistance to class oppression.