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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Page 157
... overseas producers to rival its own production in future decades . In this connection , it is worth noting that while the coming of steam power , the factory system , railways , and later electricity enabled the British to overcome ...
... overseas producers to rival its own production in future decades . In this connection , it is worth noting that while the coming of steam power , the factory system , railways , and later electricity enabled the British to overcome ...
Page 211
... overseas is hardly surprising . In this age of the " new imperialism , " similar calls could be heard in every other Great Power ; as Gilbert Murray wickedly observed in 1900 , each country seemed to be asserting , " We are the pick and ...
... overseas is hardly surprising . In this age of the " new imperialism , " similar calls could be heard in every other Great Power ; as Gilbert Murray wickedly observed in 1900 , each country seemed to be asserting , " We are the pick and ...
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... overseas trade was accompanied , perhaps inevitably , by a more assertive diplomacy and by an American - style rhetoric of Weltpolitik . 165 Claims to a special moral endowment among the peoples of the earth which made Ameri- can ...
... overseas trade was accompanied , perhaps inevitably , by a more assertive diplomacy and by an American - style rhetoric of Weltpolitik . 165 Claims to a special moral endowment among the peoples of the earth which made Ameri- can ...
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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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