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 224
Fighting the Boches with Russia and Britain as one ' s allies had been the French
dream since 1871 ; now it seemed a distinct reality . France was not strong
enough to oppose Germany in a one - to - one struggle , something which all
French ...
Fighting the Boches with Russia and Britain as one ' s allies had been the French
dream since 1871 ; now it seemed a distinct reality . France was not strong
enough to oppose Germany in a one - to - one struggle , something which all
French ...
Page 277
The sudden American retreat into at least relative diplomatic isolationism after
1920 seemed yet another contradiction to those worldpower trends which , as
detailed above , had been under way since the 1890s . To the prophets of world ...
The sudden American retreat into at least relative diplomatic isolationism after
1920 seemed yet another contradiction to those worldpower trends which , as
detailed above , had been under way since the 1890s . To the prophets of world ...
Page 371
The final element which seemed to emphasize that the world must now be
viewed , strategically and politically , as bipolar rather than in its traditional
multipolar form was the heightened role of ideology . To be sure , even in the age
of classical ...
The final element which seemed to emphasize that the world must now be
viewed , strategically and politically , as bipolar rather than in its traditional
multipolar form was the heightened role of ideology . To be sure , even in the age
of classical ...
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