The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000With 200,000 hardcover copies in print, this book has received worldwide attention. Kennedy explains how the various world powers have risen and fallen over the five centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in Western Europe. |
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Indeed , the more Chamberlain was compelled — by Hitler ' s further aggressions
, and by the outrage of British opinion — to abandon appeasement , the more the
fundamental contradictions became evident . Though the chiefs of staff ...
125 That the right choice was made in 1939 , to stand up to Hitler ' s further act of
aggression , is undoubted . But by that stage the balance of forces aligned
against British interests in Europe and even more in the Far East had become so
...
... and to subsidize food prices by a further $ 50 billion - despite which it seems to
be moving further and further away from being the exporter it once was ” 123 and
instead needs to pour out further billions of hard currency to import grain and ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictYale historian Kennedy surveys the ebb and flow of power among the major states of Europe from the 16th centurywhen Europe's preeminence first took shapethrough and beyond the present erawhen great ... Read full review
Learning from History, July 19, 2003
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Kennedy chronicles the rise of the Great Powers starting with the Ming Dynasty in China and taking us all the way to the contemporary times of the 1980s.
By analyzing world history through the prisms of economical, political, and military status of each great rising power, Kennedy fuses a theory of why certain countries throughout history (1500-present) rose to be regional or world powers and why they later collapsed.
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As the other reviewers noted, Kennedy's book falls short of accurately predicting the changes that were to follow the publication date of his book (fall of Russia, Asian market crises). Nevertheless this book is a valuable historical resource.
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The Rise of the Western World | 3 |
World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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| Title | The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 History/Political Science |
| Authors | Paul Kennedy, Paul M. Kennedy, Professor Paul Kennedy |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2008 |
| ISBN | 0679720197, 9780679720195 |
| Length | 677 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History History / Modern / 20th Century History / World |
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