This was yet another page that their father, Wataro Taki, had taken from the book of Japan's feudal past.

Engels thought that the lack of a feudal past was the reason for the American working class holding middle class values.

America never had a feudal past, so nobody has a sense of social place or class-consciousness, Lipset observed.

The laws and institutions ofEurope still represent its violent and feudal past, not the spirit of reform.

Mao regarded the wall and many other historical relics as remnants of China's feudal past and saw little justification for preservation.

In Japan's feudal past, ronin were masterless samurai who wandered the countryside.

Why is the UK the only European nation that still clings to its feudal past?

But it was MacArthur's firm intention to keep the country weaned from its feudal past, which he saw as highly dangerous.

He is hostile to the feudal, agricultural past and not in real touch with the industrial present.

Britain, by contrast, most certainly does have a feudal past.