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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... French army at Alex- andria , which afterward led to a complete French withdrawal from Egypt . Farther afield , British forces in India overwhelmed the French- backed Tipu in Mysore and continued to make additional gains in the north .
... French army at Alex- andria , which afterward led to a complete French withdrawal from Egypt . Farther afield , British forces in India overwhelmed the French- backed Tipu in Mysore and continued to make additional gains in the north .
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... French defense policy in this period ; but there are useful details in D. Porch , The March to the Marne : The French Army 1871-1914 ( Cambridge , 1981 ) ; P.-M. de la Gorce , The French Army : A Military Political History ( New York ...
... French defense policy in this period ; but there are useful details in D. Porch , The March to the Marne : The French Army 1871-1914 ( Cambridge , 1981 ) ; P.-M. de la Gorce , The French Army : A Military Political History ( New York ...
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... French politics and society in the 1930s and its relationship to the 1940 " strange defeat . " There are important surveys in J. B. Duroselle , La Décadence 1932–1939 ( Paris , 1979 ) ; R. Hohne , " Innere Desintegration und äusserer ...
... French politics and society in the 1930s and its relationship to the 1940 " strange defeat . " There are important surveys in J. B. Duroselle , La Décadence 1932–1939 ( Paris , 1979 ) ; R. Hohne , " Innere Desintegration und äusserer ...
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