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 161
... German question , " that is to say , about the possi- bility of an eventual union of the thirty - nine German states , and the means by which that goal could be secured . For not only did the issue predictably divide the liberal ...
... German question , " that is to say , about the possi- bility of an eventual union of the thirty - nine German states , and the means by which that goal could be secured . For not only did the issue predictably divide the liberal ...
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... German repeat of Tannenberg / Masurian Lakes was not at all clear . As the Anglo - French armies were battering away in the west throughout 1915 ( where the French lost a further 1.5 million men and the British 300,000 ) , the Germans ...
... German repeat of Tannenberg / Masurian Lakes was not at all clear . As the Anglo - French armies were battering away in the west throughout 1915 ( where the French lost a further 1.5 million men and the British 300,000 ) , the Germans ...
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... German - German " relationship will probably seem , at this time , the most hypothetical of the cluster . As has been made clear in the preceding chapters , the proper place of the German people within the European states system has ...
... German - German " relationship will probably seem , at this time , the most hypothetical of the cluster . As has been made clear in the preceding chapters , the proper place of the German people within the European states system has ...
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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