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 144
... strength . While the new technology in- creased the lead in firepower and mobility which the Great Powers enjoyed in the overseas world , it was going to be many decades before military and naval commanders revised their ideas of how to ...
... strength . While the new technology in- creased the lead in firepower and mobility which the Great Powers enjoyed in the overseas world , it was going to be many decades before military and naval commanders revised their ideas of how to ...
Page 238
... strength . Once this superficial level of number - counting is discarded , how- ever , even the military issue becomes altogether more problematical . Once again , the decisive factor was Russia's socioeconomic and techni- cal ...
... strength . Once this superficial level of number - counting is discarded , how- ever , even the military issue becomes altogether more problematical . Once again , the decisive factor was Russia's socioeconomic and techni- cal ...
Page 436
... strength was concerned , compared with the strength of England at that time . Japan was similarly insignificant compared with Russia . Is it " conceivable " that in ten or twenty years ' time the relative strength of the imperialist ...
... strength was concerned , compared with the strength of England at that time . Japan was similarly insignificant compared with Russia . Is it " conceivable " that in ten or twenty years ' time the relative strength of the imperialist ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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