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American shogun : General MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito and the drama of modern Japan
by Harvey, Robert
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- Hardcover
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Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; 480 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Summary; ""In the years and months leading up to Pearl Harbor, Japan was becoming the most industrialized state in Asia, as well as the repository of a martial heritage that fueled imperial ambitions of conquest and hegemony. Across the Pacific, the United States was emerging from the depression and again growing into its role as a global power. Today's partnership between modern Japan - now Asia's most well-developed. Subjects; MacArthur, Douglas, -- 1880-1964. Hirohito, -- Emperor of Japan, -- 1901-1989. United States. -- Army -- Biography.
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- Title
- American shogun : General MacArthur, Emperor Hirohito and the drama of modern Japan
- Author
- Harvey, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 4
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press
- Date Published
- 2006
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