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 92
... diplomatic and geographical context , the early kings of Prussia played the game well . The acquisition of Silesia - described by some as the industrial zone in the east — was in particular a great boost to the state's military ...
... diplomatic and geographical context , the early kings of Prussia played the game well . The acquisition of Silesia - described by some as the industrial zone in the east — was in particular a great boost to the state's military ...
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... diplomatic revolu- tion " 183 of 1904-1905 if not for two other factors . The first was the growing suspicion held by the British and French toward Germany , whose aims , although unclear , looked ambitious and dangerous , as Chancellor ...
... diplomatic revolu- tion " 183 of 1904-1905 if not for two other factors . The first was the growing suspicion held by the British and French toward Germany , whose aims , although unclear , looked ambitious and dangerous , as Chancellor ...
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... diplomatic isola- tionism after 1920 seemed yet another contradiction to those world- power trends which , as detailed above , had been under way since the 1890s . To the prophets of world politics in that earlier period , it was self ...
... diplomatic isola- tionism after 1920 seemed yet another contradiction to those world- power trends which , as detailed above , had been under way since the 1890s . To the prophets of world politics in that earlier period , it was self ...
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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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