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. |
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... Berlin Conference which formalized those humiliating concessions , the fact remained that many among the St. Petersburg elite were more than ever aware of the need to maintain good relations with Berlin - and even to reenter , in a ...
... Berlin Conference which formalized those humiliating concessions , the fact remained that many among the St. Petersburg elite were more than ever aware of the need to maintain good relations with Berlin - and even to reenter , in a ...
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... Berlin . While the age of air power enabled the Americans and British to call Stalin's bluff by flying supplies into Berlin for the next eleven months , until the land access was restored , there had been many who argued for sending a ...
... Berlin . While the age of air power enabled the Americans and British to call Stalin's bluff by flying supplies into Berlin for the next eleven months , until the land access was restored , there had been many who argued for sending a ...
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... Berlin Wall , 379 , 384 Berlin Wall crisis ( 1961 ) , 390 Berlin West Africa Conference , 194 , 246 , 287 Béthune , Maximilien de , Duc de Sully , 57 bipolar world : in Carter / Reagan period , 409-13 determining forces in , 197-98 ...
... Berlin Wall , 379 , 384 Berlin Wall crisis ( 1961 ) , 390 Berlin West Africa Conference , 194 , 246 , 287 Béthune , Maximilien de , Duc de Sully , 57 bipolar world : in Carter / Reagan period , 409-13 determining forces in , 197-98 ...
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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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