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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... rates steadily dropped , * but also that British government stock was increasingly attractive to foreign , and particularly Dutch , investors . Regular deal- ings in these securities on the Amsterdam market thus became an important part ...
... rates steadily dropped , * but also that British government stock was increasingly attractive to foreign , and particularly Dutch , investors . Regular deal- ings in these securities on the Amsterdam market thus became an important part ...
Page 84
... rates of interest far above those charged to the British and many other European governments . * Yet even this willingness to pay over the odds did not permit the Bourbon monarchs to secure the sums which were necessary to sustain an ...
... rates of interest far above those charged to the British and many other European governments . * Yet even this willingness to pay over the odds did not permit the Bourbon monarchs to secure the sums which were necessary to sustain an ...
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... rates since the 1970s and perhaps earlier . Because of a slow erosion in hospital and general health care , poor standards of sanitation and public hygiene , and the fantastic levels of alcoholism , death rates in the Soviet Union have ...
... rates since the 1970s and perhaps earlier . Because of a slow erosion in hospital and general health care , poor standards of sanitation and public hygiene , and the fantastic levels of alcoholism , death rates in the Soviet Union have ...
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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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