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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The result was to make Europe the fastest - growing region in the world , Japan
excepted . “ Between 1950 and 1970 European gross domestic product grew on
average at about 5 . 5 percent per annum and 4 . 4 percent on a per capita basis
...
The result was to make Europe the fastest - growing region in the world , Japan
excepted . “ Between 1950 and 1970 European gross domestic product grew on
average at about 5 . 5 percent per annum and 4 . 4 percent on a per capita basis
...
Page 545
R . A . Stradling , Europe and the Decline of Spain : A Study of the Spanish
System , 1580 – 1720 ( London / Boston , 1981 ) , p . 44 . 5 . For example ,
Gattinara ' s declaration to Charles V that “ God has set you on the path towards a
world ...
R . A . Stradling , Europe and the Decline of Spain : A Study of the Spanish
System , 1580 – 1720 ( London / Boston , 1981 ) , p . 44 . 5 . For example ,
Gattinara ' s declaration to Charles V that “ God has set you on the path towards a
world ...
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comments on Russia ' s rise in M . S . Anderson , Europe in the Eighteenth
Century ( London , 1961 ) , espec . ch . 9 . 34 . A . de Tocqueville , Democracy in
America , 2 vols . ( New York , 1945 edn . ) , p . 452 ; and see also the
prognostications ...
comments on Russia ' s rise in M . S . Anderson , Europe in the Eighteenth
Century ( London , 1961 ) , espec . ch . 9 . 34 . A . de Tocqueville , Democracy in
America , 2 vols . ( New York , 1945 edn . ) , p . 452 ; and see also the
prognostications ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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