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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... Spanish authority there by the mid - 1560s was answered by the dispatch northward of an army under the Duke of Alba and by the imposition of a military despotism - in turn provoking full - scale resist- ance in the seagirt , defensible ...
... Spanish authority there by the mid - 1560s was answered by the dispatch northward of an army under the Duke of Alba and by the imposition of a military despotism - in turn provoking full - scale resist- ance in the seagirt , defensible ...
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... Spanish army under its general , Cardinal- Infante , in turn forced Richelieu to decide upon direct French involve- ment , ordering troops across various frontiers in 1535. For years beforehand , France had been the tacit , indirect ...
... Spanish army under its general , Cardinal- Infante , in turn forced Richelieu to decide upon direct French involve- ment , ordering troops across various frontiers in 1535. For years beforehand , France had been the tacit , indirect ...
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... Spanish bases - and fleets . British fleets ensured the cap- ture of Minorca and Sardinia ; they covered Savoy and the Italian coasts from French attack ; and when the allies went onto the offensive , they shepherded and supplied the ...
... Spanish bases - and fleets . British fleets ensured the cap- ture of Minorca and Sardinia ; they covered Savoy and the Italian coasts from French attack ; and when the allies went onto the offensive , they shepherded and supplied the ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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