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 78
... successfully did Amsterdam become a center of Dutch " surplus capital " that it soon was able to invest in the stock of foreign companies and , most important of all , to subscribe to a whole variety of loans floated by foreign ...
... successfully did Amsterdam become a center of Dutch " surplus capital " that it soon was able to invest in the stock of foreign companies and , most important of all , to subscribe to a whole variety of loans floated by foreign ...
Page 208
... successful military and naval campaigning against China in 1894 , when those two coun- tries quarreled over their claims in Korea.41 On land and sea , the better - equipped Japanese forces seemed driven by a will to succeed . At the end ...
... successful military and naval campaigning against China in 1894 , when those two coun- tries quarreled over their claims in Korea.41 On land and sea , the better - equipped Japanese forces seemed driven by a will to succeed . At the end ...
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... successful adjust- ment to the newer world balances even more difficult than for the United States . All this ought to have been of some consolation in Washington , and acted as a guide to a more relaxed and sophisticated view of ...
... successful adjust- ment to the newer world balances even more difficult than for the United States . All this ought to have been of some consolation in Washington , and acted as a guide to a more relaxed and sophisticated view 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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