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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... western Europe to the fate of eastern Europe to a degree which the British at least had never before contem- plated . Yet Poland could not be directly assisted by the western coun- tries , and any indirect assistance was going to be ...
... western Europe to the fate of eastern Europe to a degree which the British at least had never before contem- plated . Yet Poland could not be directly assisted by the western coun- tries , and any indirect assistance was going to be ...
Page 377
... western Europe , just at a time when the Soviet economy had returned to the most rigid forms of socialization and collectivization ; and it took no genius to see that the raison d'être for the plan was to convince Europeans everywhere ...
... western Europe , just at a time when the Soviet economy had returned to the most rigid forms of socialization and collectivization ; and it took no genius to see that the raison d'être for the plan was to convince Europeans everywhere ...
Page 550
... Western Europe , " Past and Present , vol . 31 ( 1965 ) , pp . 20–38 ; J. H. Shennan , The Origins of the Modern European State 1450-1725 ( London , 1974 ) ; H. Lubasz ( ed . ) , The Development of the Modern State ( New York , 1964 ) ...
... Western Europe , " Past and Present , vol . 31 ( 1965 ) , pp . 20–38 ; J. H. Shennan , The Origins of the Modern European State 1450-1725 ( London , 1974 ) ; H. Lubasz ( ed . ) , The Development of the Modern State ( New York , 1964 ) ...
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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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