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 49
... Austrian Habsburgs , and Fer- dinand II in particular , would have been wiser to have refrained from pushing forward with the Counter - Reformation in northern Germany , for that brought heavy losses and few gains . Yet the emperor ...
... Austrian Habsburgs , and Fer- dinand II in particular , would have been wiser to have refrained from pushing forward with the Counter - Reformation in northern Germany , for that brought heavy losses and few gains . Yet the emperor ...
Page 110
... Austrian circles in France fully supported Prussia and Bavaria in their assaults upon the Habsburg inheritance . But this in turn led to a renewal of the old Anglo - Austrian alliance , bringing substantial subsidies to the beleaguered ...
... Austrian circles in France fully supported Prussia and Bavaria in their assaults upon the Habsburg inheritance . But this in turn led to a renewal of the old Anglo - Austrian alliance , bringing substantial subsidies to the beleaguered ...
Page 216
... Austria ( 850 crowns ) and Bohemia ( 761 crowns ) being far in excess of those in Galicia ( 316 crowns ) , Bukovina ( 310 crowns ) , and Dalmatia ( 264 crowns ) .73 Yet while it was in the Austrian provinces and Czech lands that ...
... Austria ( 850 crowns ) and Bohemia ( 761 crowns ) being far in excess of those in Galicia ( 316 crowns ) , Bukovina ( 310 crowns ) , and Dalmatia ( 264 crowns ) .73 Yet while it was in the Austrian provinces and Czech lands that ...
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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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