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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... land campaign less likely . Torn between fighting in Flanders , Germany , and northern Italy on the one hand and in the Channel , West Indies , Lower Canada , and the Indian Ocean on the other , French strategy led repeatedly to a ...
... land campaign less likely . Torn between fighting in Flanders , Germany , and northern Italy on the one hand and in the Channel , West Indies , Lower Canada , and the Indian Ocean on the other , French strategy led repeatedly to a ...
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... land nor induced to seek extension of its territory by way of land , it has , by the very unity of its aim directed upon the sea , an advan- tage as compared with a people one of whose boundaries is conti- nental.35 Mahan's statement ...
... land nor induced to seek extension of its territory by way of land , it has , by the very unity of its aim directed upon the sea , an advan- tage as compared with a people one of whose boundaries is conti- nental.35 Mahan's statement ...
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... land , while at sea Britain was unchallenged . Small wonder that the Whigs , who returned to office on George I's accession in 1714 , were soon anxious to preserve the Utrecht settlement and were even willing to embrace a French entente ...
... land , while at sea Britain was unchallenged . Small wonder that the Whigs , who returned to office on George I's accession in 1714 , were soon anxious to preserve the Utrecht settlement and were even willing to embrace a French entente ...
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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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