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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... imperial power with troops , ships , raw materi- als , and money - and this was an age when politicians in Whitehall were carefully cultivating their kinsmen overseas in the cause of a more organized " imperial defense . " 120 Finally ...
... imperial power with troops , ships , raw materi- als , and money - and this was an age when politicians in Whitehall were carefully cultivating their kinsmen overseas in the cause of a more organized " imperial defense . " 120 Finally ...
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... imperial thrust into Abyssinia in the mid - 1930s . Only the far larger shocks administered by the Second World War would really loosen these imperial controls . Nevertheless , this colonial unrest was of some importance to ...
... imperial thrust into Abyssinia in the mid - 1930s . Only the far larger shocks administered by the Second World War would really loosen these imperial controls . Nevertheless , this colonial unrest was of some importance to ...
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... Imperial Japanese Navy ( Oxford , 1981 ) , ch . 11 ; S. E. Pelz , Race to Pearl Harbor ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1974 ) , espec . pts . 1 and 5 ; C. Bateson , The War with Japan ( East Lansing , Mich . , 1968 ) , ch . 2 . 63. Willmott ...
... Imperial Japanese Navy ( Oxford , 1981 ) , ch . 11 ; S. E. Pelz , Race to Pearl Harbor ( Cambridge , Mass . , 1974 ) , espec . pts . 1 and 5 ; C. Bateson , The War with Japan ( East Lansing , Mich . , 1968 ) , ch . 2 . 63. Willmott ...
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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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