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 204
... Italy's " big push " toward industrializa- tion ; indeed , Italian industrial growth rose faster than anywhere else in Europe , the population shift from the countryside to the towns intensified , the banking system readjusted itself in ...
... Italy's " big push " toward industrializa- tion ; indeed , Italian industrial growth rose faster than anywhere else in Europe , the population shift from the countryside to the towns intensified , the banking system readjusted itself in ...
Page 205
... Italian population , but such elements were absent . The loyalties which existed in the Italian body politic were familial and local , perhaps regional , but not national . The chronic gap between north and south , which the ...
... Italian population , but such elements were absent . The loyalties which existed in the Italian body politic were familial and local , perhaps regional , but not national . The chronic gap between north and south , which the ...
Page 568
... Italian history generally in this period is covered in D. Mack Smith , Italy , A Modern History ( Ann Arbor , 1969 ) , pp . 101ff ; C. Seton Watson , Italy from Liberalism to Fascism ( London , 1967 ) , pp . 129–412 . It is noticeable ...
... Italian history generally in this period is covered in D. Mack Smith , Italy , A Modern History ( Ann Arbor , 1969 ) , pp . 101ff ; C. Seton Watson , Italy from Liberalism to Fascism ( London , 1967 ) , pp . 129–412 . It is noticeable ...
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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