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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... Position of the Powers , 1885-1914 In the face of such unnervingly specific figures , that a certain power possessed 2.7 percent of world manufacturing production in 1913 , or that another had an industrial potential in 1928 which was ...
... Position of the Powers , 1885-1914 In the face of such unnervingly specific figures , that a certain power possessed 2.7 percent of world manufacturing production in 1913 , or that another had an industrial potential in 1928 which was ...
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... position of being unable to damage the other decisively . If the Battle of Britain had rendered impossible a German cross - Channel invasion , the imbalance of land forces made a British military entry into Europe quite out of the ...
... position of being unable to damage the other decisively . If the Battle of Britain had rendered impossible a German cross - Channel invasion , the imbalance of land forces made a British military entry into Europe quite out of the ...
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... position on the ( in its view ) distracting and distant issues in the Near East and farther afield , and that in turn leads it into disagreements with a U.S. government which feels that the preservation of western security cannot be so ...
... position on the ( in its view ) distracting and distant issues in the Near East and farther afield , and that in turn leads it into disagreements with a U.S. government which feels that the preservation of western security cannot be so ...
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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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