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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... British equivalents , and the number was soon increased to sixty - six . To this could be added the Spanish fleet of fifty - eight ships of the line and , in 1780 , a Dutch fleet of not more than twenty effectives . While the Royal Navy ...
... British equivalents , and the number was soon increased to sixty - six . To this could be added the Spanish fleet of fifty - eight ships of the line and , in 1780 , a Dutch fleet of not more than twenty effectives . While the Royal Navy ...
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... British as far more valuable than a large and expensive standing army . The first of these was in the naval realm . For over a century before 1815 , of course , the Royal Navy had usually been the largest in the world . But that ...
... British as far more valuable than a large and expensive standing army . The first of these was in the naval realm . For over a century before 1815 , of course , the Royal Navy had usually been the largest in the world . But that ...
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... Royal Navy in the Fisher Period , vol . i , The Road to War , 1904-1914 . London , 1961 . Old Friends , New Enemies : The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy . Oxford , 1981 . The Anatomy of British Sea Power . Hamden , Conn ...
... Royal Navy in the Fisher Period , vol . i , The Road to War , 1904-1914 . London , 1961 . Old Friends , New Enemies : The Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy . Oxford , 1981 . The Anatomy of British Sea Power . Hamden , Conn ...
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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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