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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... larger and larger amount of equipment such as machine - building and metalworking tools would be consumed by the military , crowding out the share of investment capital going to the rest of industry . Yet , while economists believe that ...
... larger and larger amount of equipment such as machine - building and metalworking tools would be consumed by the military , crowding out the share of investment capital going to the rest of industry . Yet , while economists believe that ...
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... larger totals of Soviet aircraft , tanks , artillery , and infantry divisions in as- sessments of the U.S. - USSR " military balance " -not to mention the frequent assertion that NATO forces , unable to hold their own in a large - scale ...
... larger totals of Soviet aircraft , tanks , artillery , and infantry divisions in as- sessments of the U.S. - USSR " military balance " -not to mention the frequent assertion that NATO forces , unable to hold their own in a large - scale ...
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... larger than the country's power to defend them all simultaneously . Unlike those earlier Powers that grappled with the problem of strategical overextension , the United States also confronts the possibil- ity of nuclear annihilation — a ...
... larger than the country's power to defend them all simultaneously . Unlike those earlier Powers that grappled with the problem of strategical overextension , the United States also confronts the possibil- ity of nuclear annihilation — a ...
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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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