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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... eastern front.49 Yet even before the Third Reich had collapsed , Stalin was switching dozens of divisions to the Far East , ready to unleash them upon Japan's denuded Kwantung Army in Manchuria when the time was ripe ; which turned out ...
... eastern front.49 Yet even before the Third Reich had collapsed , Stalin was switching dozens of divisions to the Far East , ready to unleash them upon Japan's denuded Kwantung Army in Manchuria when the time was ripe ; which turned out ...
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... East , Russia was still , relatively speaking , a landlocked superpower . Moreover , it now seems clear that Stalin's view of the world outside was one overwhelmingly charged with caution and sus- picion - toward the West , which , he ...
... East , Russia was still , relatively speaking , a landlocked superpower . Moreover , it now seems clear that Stalin's view of the world outside was one overwhelmingly charged with caution and sus- picion - toward the West , which , he ...
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... East has been viewed as requiring constant American atten- tion , whether of a military or a diplomatic kind . Yet the memory of the 1979 debacle in Iran and of the ill - fated Lebanon venture of 1983 , the diplomatic complexities of ...
... East has been viewed as requiring constant American atten- tion , whether of a military or a diplomatic kind . Yet the memory of the 1979 debacle in Iran and of the ill - fated Lebanon venture of 1983 , the diplomatic complexities of ...
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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