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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... already appeared in eleventh - century China , and soon large numbers of books were in existence . Trade and industry , stimulated by the canal - building and population pressures , were equally sophisticated . Chinese cities were much ...
... already appeared in eleventh - century China , and soon large numbers of books were in existence . Trade and industry , stimulated by the canal - building and population pressures , were equally sophisticated . Chinese cities were much ...
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... already resorting to heavy borrowings from financiers at high rates of interest ( 10-16 percent ) , and to dubious expedients like selling offices . Worse still , it was in France rather than Spain or England that religious rivalries ...
... already resorting to heavy borrowings from financiers at high rates of interest ( 10-16 percent ) , and to dubious expedients like selling offices . Worse still , it was in France rather than Spain or England that religious rivalries ...
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... already suggesting that white - collar jobs may soon follow the path already trodden by blue - collar workers in the West . None of this , one hopes , portends a cataclysm . A general growth in world output and trade would help to keep ...
... already suggesting that white - collar jobs may soon follow the path already trodden by blue - collar workers in the West . None of this , one hopes , portends a cataclysm . A general growth in world output and trade would help to keep ...
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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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