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 178
... United States and Russia which would have an increasing impact upon their national power . The first of these was in terms of total population , although the gap significantly narrowed between 1816 ( Russia 51.2 million , United States ...
... United States and Russia which would have an increasing impact upon their national power . The first of these was in terms of total population , although the gap significantly narrowed between 1816 ( Russia 51.2 million , United States ...
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... United States was immensely secure , and even if it feared the rise of German sea power , it really had far less to worry about than any of the other major powers . 171 The small size of the U.S. military was in many ways a reflection ...
... United States was immensely secure , and even if it feared the rise of German sea power , it really had far less to worry about than any of the other major powers . 171 The small size of the U.S. military was in many ways a reflection ...
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... United States , also appeared to be encoun- tering economic difficulties from the 1960s onward and that it was swiftly losing the relative share of the world's wealth , production , and trade which it had possessed in 1945. Yet mention ...
... United States , also appeared to be encoun- tering economic difficulties from the 1960s onward and that it was swiftly losing the relative share of the world's wealth , production , and trade which it had possessed in 1945. Yet mention ...
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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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