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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... reasons why any particular state was drawn into this larger context , two more general causes were chiefly responsible ... reason for the much more widespread and interlinked pattern of warfare after 1500 was the creation of a dynastic ...
... reasons why any particular state was drawn into this larger context , two more general causes were chiefly responsible ... reason for the much more widespread and interlinked pattern of warfare after 1500 was the creation of a dynastic ...
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... reason was that although some Frenchmen argued that the conflict should be fought at sea and in the colonies , the natural tendency in Paris was to attack Britain via Hanover , the strategical Achilles ' heel of the islanders . This ...
... reason was that although some Frenchmen argued that the conflict should be fought at sea and in the colonies , the natural tendency in Paris was to attack Britain via Hanover , the strategical Achilles ' heel of the islanders . This ...
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... reasons , and despite serious disruption to British trade in some markets for some of the time , the overall trend was ... reason that the British economy did not crumble in the face of external pressures was that , unfortunately for ...
... reasons , and despite serious disruption to British trade in some markets for some of the time , the overall trend was ... reason that the British economy did not crumble in the face of external pressures was that , unfortunately for ...
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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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