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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... remained a powerful foe ; its troops sacked Moscow in 1571 , and it remained independent until the late eighteenth century . Challenges from the West were even more threatening ; the Poles , for example , occupied Moscow between 1608 ...
... remained a powerful foe ; its troops sacked Moscow in 1571 , and it remained independent until the late eighteenth century . Challenges from the West were even more threatening ; the Poles , for example , occupied Moscow between 1608 ...
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... remained . The stupendous decline in manufacturing - down to 13 percent of its 1913 output by 1920 - concealed the even greater collapse of certain key commodities : " thus only 1.6 percent of the prewar iron ore was being produced ...
... remained . The stupendous decline in manufacturing - down to 13 percent of its 1913 output by 1920 - concealed the even greater collapse of certain key commodities : " thus only 1.6 percent of the prewar iron ore was being produced ...
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... remained as weak as ever , in productive terms : in 1980 , the American farm worker was producing enough food to supply sixty - five people , whereas his Russian equivalent turned out enough to feed only eight.242 This , in turn , led ...
... remained as weak as ever , in productive terms : in 1980 , the American farm worker was producing enough food to supply sixty - five people , whereas his Russian equivalent turned out enough to feed only eight.242 This , in turn , led ...
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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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