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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... struggle and of the ultimate defeat of these Habsburg ambitions by a coalition of other European states forms the core of this chapter . By 1659 , when Spain finally acknowledged defeat in the Treaty of the Pyrenees , the political ...
... struggle and of the ultimate defeat of these Habsburg ambitions by a coalition of other European states forms the core of this chapter . By 1659 , when Spain finally acknowledged defeat in the Treaty of the Pyrenees , the political ...
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... Struggle Although there were always specific reasons why any particular state was drawn into this larger context , two more general causes were chiefly responsible for the transformation in both the intensity and geographical scope of ...
... Struggle Although there were always specific reasons why any particular state was drawn into this larger context , two more general causes were chiefly responsible for the transformation in both the intensity and geographical scope of ...
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... Struggle for Mastery in Europe , pp . 201-17 ; W. E. Mosse , The European Powers and the German Question 1848–1870 ( Cambridge , 1958 ) ; E. Kolb ( ed . ) , Europa und die Reichsgründung ( Historische Zeitschrift , Beiheft 6 , Munich ...
... Struggle for Mastery in Europe , pp . 201-17 ; W. E. Mosse , The European Powers and the German Question 1848–1870 ( Cambridge , 1958 ) ; E. Kolb ( ed . ) , Europa und die Reichsgründung ( Historische Zeitschrift , Beiheft 6 , Munich ...
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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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