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 162
... least worrying . Much more disturbing was the potential French threat to the Rhineland , in 1830 , again in 1840 , and finally in the 1860s . All those periods of tension merely confirmed what the quarrels with Vienna and occasional ...
... least worrying . Much more disturbing was the potential French threat to the Rhineland , in 1830 , again in 1840 , and finally in the 1860s . All those periods of tension merely confirmed what the quarrels with Vienna and occasional ...
Page 164
... least 90 percent of Frenchmen spoke French and the same pro- portion belonged at least nominally to the Catholic Church . More than eight in every ten Prussians were German ( the rest were mostly Poles ) and of the Germans 70 percent ...
... least 90 percent of Frenchmen spoke French and the same pro- portion belonged at least nominally to the Catholic Church . More than eight in every ten Prussians were German ( the rest were mostly Poles ) and of the Germans 70 percent ...
Page 248
... least to the extent that the public realized how minuscule it actually was , how disorganized the National Guard was , and how close to disaster the early campaigning in Cuba had come.172 But the tripling of the size of the regular army ...
... least to the extent that the public realized how minuscule it actually was , how disorganized the National Guard was , and how close to disaster the early campaigning in Cuba had come.172 But the tripling of the size of the regular army ...
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