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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... military campaigns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- ries were carried out in the manner which characterized , say , the Normandy invasion of 1944. As the preceding analysis should have demonstrated , the military machines of ...
... military campaigns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- ries were carried out in the manner which characterized , say , the Normandy invasion of 1944. As the preceding analysis should have demonstrated , the military machines of ...
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... military capabilities which only the rival American superpower possesses . This is not a twentieth - cen- tury military Potemkin village , ready to collapse at the first serious testing , 161 On the other hand , the Soviet war machine ...
... military capabilities which only the rival American superpower possesses . This is not a twentieth - cen- tury military Potemkin village , ready to collapse at the first serious testing , 161 On the other hand , the Soviet war machine ...
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... Military Spending : Assessing the Numbers Game , " International Security , vol . 6 , no . 4 ( Spring 1982 ) , pp ... Military Balance 1985–86 , pp . 17–20 ; Holzman , “ Soviet Military Spending , " passim ; W. T. Lee , The Estimation of ...
... Military Spending : Assessing the Numbers Game , " International Security , vol . 6 , no . 4 ( Spring 1982 ) , pp ... Military Balance 1985–86 , pp . 17–20 ; Holzman , “ Soviet Military Spending , " passim ; W. T. Lee , The Estimation of ...
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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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