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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... military campaigns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- ries were carried out in the manner which characterized , say , the Normandy invasion of 1944. As the preceding analysis should have demonstrated , the military machines of ...
... military campaigns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- ries were carried out in the manner which characterized , say , the Normandy invasion of 1944. As the preceding analysis should have demonstrated , the military machines of ...
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... military capabilities which only the rival American superpower possesses . This is not a twentieth - cen- tury military Potemkin village , ready to collapse at the first serious testing.161 On the other hand , the Soviet war machine ...
... military capabilities which only the rival American superpower possesses . This is not a twentieth - cen- tury military Potemkin village , ready to collapse at the first serious testing.161 On the other hand , the Soviet war machine ...
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... military leadership in , 325 military manpower in , 502 military spending in ( current ) , 498-500 , 513-14 military spending in ( interwar ) , 324-25 military strength of , 499-500 , 503 , 513-14 nationality problem in , 502-3 naval ...
... military leadership in , 325 military manpower in , 502 military spending in ( current ) , 498-500 , 513-14 military spending in ( interwar ) , 324-25 military strength of , 499-500 , 503 , 513-14 nationality problem in , 502-3 naval ...
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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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