Hideyoshi by Mary Elizabeth Berry

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Hideyoshi by Mary Elizabeth Berry

Hideyoshipeasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japanis the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japans 16th-century warlords and the invasion of Korea. But his lasting contribution is as governor whose policies shaped Japanese politics for almost 300 years.
Elizabeth Berry’s Hideyoshi is the first truly scholarly comprehensive or readable account in English of a man who was probably the most extraordinary and significant political figure in the world during the sixteenth centuryNo single person did more than Hideyoshi to shape the Japan of modern times. -- Edwin O. Reischauer
Mary Elizabeth Berry is Class of 1944 Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
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ISBN 13 9780674390263
ISBN 10 0674390261
Title Hideyoshi
Author Mary Elizabeth Berry
Series Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Harvard University Press
Year published 1989-01-01
Number of pages 312
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