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 204
... industrial expansion was a mixed blessing , since it slowed its industrial growth in per capita terms relative to the other western Powers , 29 and the comparison would have been even more unfavorable had not hundreds of thousands of ...
... industrial expansion was a mixed blessing , since it slowed its industrial growth in per capita terms relative to the other western Powers , 29 and the comparison would have been even more unfavorable had not hundreds of thousands of ...
Page 228
... industries such as steel , chemicals , machine tools , and electrical goods , Britain soon lost what early lead it pos- sessed . Industrial production , which had grown at an annual rule of about 4 percent in the period 1820 to 1840 and ...
... industries such as steel , chemicals , machine tools , and electrical goods , Britain soon lost what early lead it pos- sessed . Industrial production , which had grown at an annual rule of about 4 percent in the period 1820 to 1840 and ...
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... Industrial Revolution in the West on a country - by - country basis , see T. Kemp , Industrialization in Nine- teenth - Century Europe ( London , 1969 ) ; W. O. Henderson , The Industrial Revo- lution on the Continent : Germany , France ...
... Industrial Revolution in the West on a country - by - country basis , see T. Kemp , Industrialization in Nine- teenth - Century Europe ( London , 1969 ) ; W. O. Henderson , The Industrial Revo- lution on the Continent : Germany , France ...
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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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