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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... capital , the practice of buying cheap and selling dear , the ostentation of the nouveau riche merchant , all offended the elite , scholarly bureau- crats - almost as much as they aroused the resentments of the toiling masses . While ...
... capital , the practice of buying cheap and selling dear , the ostentation of the nouveau riche merchant , all offended the elite , scholarly bureau- crats - almost as much as they aroused the resentments of the toiling masses . While ...
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... 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 governments , especially in wartime . " The impact of these activities ...
... 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 governments , especially in wartime . " The impact of these activities ...
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... capital investment and industrial growth . In the me- dium , let alone the long , term , the economic consequences were frightening . Probably only the U.S. economy could , without major difficulty , have withstood the strain placed ...
... capital investment and industrial growth . In the me- dium , let alone the long , term , the economic consequences were frightening . Probably only the U.S. economy could , without major difficulty , have withstood the strain placed ...
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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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