Toyotomi Hideyoshi: the making of a modern hero

Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu were the three most powerful warlords of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century who successfully created a unified Japanese state by bringing to an end the civil wars. For this, they would go down in history as The Unifiers. Although the unification was achieved through the accumulated efforts of the three, Hideyoshi has emerged as the …

Amazing woman: 100 lives to inspire you

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9781788956819

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95 p. ; ill. ; 27 cm

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920 BRI a

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