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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... figures from Childs , Armies and Warfare in Europe 1648-1789 , p . 42 — and both differ on occasions from data given in specific works on national armies or individual wars . 42. These figures are taken from Anderson , Europe in the ...
... figures from Childs , Armies and Warfare in Europe 1648-1789 , p . 42 — and both differ on occasions from data given in specific works on national armies or individual wars . 42. These figures are taken from Anderson , Europe in the ...
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... figures given in the preceding paragraph come . 8. Landes , Unbound Prometheus , pp . 97-98 . 9. Ashton , Industrial Revolution , p . 129 . 10. Mathias , First Industrial Nation , p . 5 . 11. Bairoch , " International Industrialization ...
... figures given in the preceding paragraph come . 8. Landes , Unbound Prometheus , pp . 97-98 . 9. Ashton , Industrial Revolution , p . 129 . 10. Mathias , First Industrial Nation , p . 5 . 11. Bairoch , " International Industrialization ...
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... figures for 1987 , because of the decline in the value of the American currency . 249. Balfour , Adversaries , p . 204 . 250. Ibid . , p . 193 . 251. L. Thurow , " America Among Equals , " in Ungar ( ed . ) , Estrangement , pp . 159– 78 ...
... figures for 1987 , because of the decline in the value of the American currency . 249. Balfour , Adversaries , p . 204 . 250. Ibid . , p . 193 . 251. L. Thurow , " America Among Equals , " in Ungar ( ed . ) , Estrangement , pp . 159– 78 ...
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