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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 96
As was happening elsewhere in the world , power gravitated toward those
individuals or groups who possessed the resources to commandeer a large
musket - bearing army and , most important of all , cannon . In Japan the result
was the ...
66 When the Anglo - French assault on the Crimea brought the war to a highly
sensitive region of Russian territory , the armed forces of the czar were incapable
of repudiating such an invasion . At sea , Russia possessed a fair - sized navy ...
In 1870 , the German states combined already possessed a larger population
than France , and only disunity had disguised that fact . Germany had more miles
of railway lines , better arranged for military purposes . Its gross national product
...
What people are saying - Write a review
The rise and fall of the great powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000
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
<P>
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.
<P>
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.
Contents
The Rise of the Western World | 3 |
World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
2 | 18 |
Copyright | |
32 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
References to this book
Bibliographic information
| 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 |
| Export Citation | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |