The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. "From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Page 105
... allied capacity to wound but not kill was even more evident in the military campaigns against France and Spain . By 1709 the allied invasion army was falling back from a brief occupation of Madrid , unable to hold the country in the ...
... allied capacity to wound but not kill was even more evident in the military campaigns against France and Spain . By 1709 the allied invasion army was falling back from a brief occupation of Madrid , unable to hold the country in the ...
Page 259
... Allied troops away from fighting in France.198 The same points can be made about the overwhelming Allied naval superiority . The geography of the North Sea and the Mediterranean meant that the main Allied lines of communication were ...
... Allied troops away from fighting in France.198 The same points can be made about the overwhelming Allied naval superiority . The geography of the North Sea and the Mediterranean meant that the main Allied lines of communication were ...
Page 271
... Allied side even before then was no great secret ; despite occasional disagreements over the naval blockade , the general ideological sympathy for the Allied democracies and the increasing dependence of U.S. exporters upon the western ...
... Allied side even before then was no great secret ; despite occasional disagreements over the naval blockade , the general ideological sympathy for the Allied democracies and the increasing dependence of U.S. exporters upon the western ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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