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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... effect upon the course of the Thirty Years War . The population , trade , overseas colonies , and general wealth of England grew in this period , but none of this could provide a sure basis for state power without domestic harmony ...
... effect upon the course of the Thirty Years War . The population , trade , overseas colonies , and general wealth of England grew in this period , but none of this could provide a sure basis for state power without domestic harmony ...
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... effect . Although bravery and sheer numbers produced an eventual Russian victory over the Turks in both the Bulgarian and the Caucasian theaters of operation , there were far too many examples of " extremely inadequate reconnaissance of ...
... effect . Although bravery and sheer numbers produced an eventual Russian victory over the Turks in both the Bulgarian and the Caucasian theaters of operation , there were far too many examples of " extremely inadequate reconnaissance of ...
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... effect " forward " strategies which the fast - changing min- istries of the Third Republic had little chance to control.87 But if the volatile state of French parliamentary politics had inadvertently given a strength and consistency to ...
... effect " forward " strategies which the fast - changing min- istries of the Third Republic had little chance to control.87 But if the volatile state of French parliamentary politics had inadvertently given a strength and consistency to ...
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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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