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 xviii
... decades of the century , the Industrial Revolution was under way in Britain , which was to give that state an enhanced capacity both to colonize overseas and to frustrate the Napoleonic bid for European mastery . For an entire century ...
... decades of the century , the Industrial Revolution was under way in Britain , which was to give that state an enhanced capacity both to colonize overseas and to frustrate the Napoleonic bid for European mastery . For an entire century ...
Page 152
... decades following 1815. Given the sheer size of China's population ( and , later , Russia's ) and the obvious fact that agricultural production and distribution formed the basis of national wealth every- where , even in Britain prior to ...
... decades following 1815. Given the sheer size of China's population ( and , later , Russia's ) and the obvious fact that agricultural production and distribution formed the basis of national wealth every- where , even in Britain prior to ...
Page 467
... decades it had risen to be double Britain's and nearly half the United States ' . To be sure , its rate of growth over those decades was unusually swift , because of special conditions . Yet according to many assessments , 75 the Japa ...
... decades it had risen to be double Britain's and nearly half the United States ' . To be sure , its rate of growth over those decades was unusually swift , because of special conditions . Yet according to many assessments , 75 the Japa ...
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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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