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. "From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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... British wealth throughout the eighteenth century , and exports ( whose ratio to total national income was probably less than 10 percent until the 1780s ) were often subject to strong foreign competition and to tariffs , for which no ...
... British wealth throughout the eighteenth century , and exports ( whose ratio to total national income was probably less than 10 percent until the 1780s ) were often subject to strong foreign competition and to tariffs , for which no ...
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... British Empire existed in a power - political vacuum , which is why its colonial army could be kept relatively low . There were , it is true , limits to British imperialism — and certain problems , with the expanding American republic ...
... British Empire existed in a power - political vacuum , which is why its colonial army could be kept relatively low . There were , it is true , limits to British imperialism — and certain problems , with the expanding American republic ...
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... British eco- nomic expansion in these decades , see N.F.R. Crafts , British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution ( Oxford , 1985 ) . 19. Crouzet , Victorian Economy , pp . 4-5 . 20. Quoted in R. Hyam , Britain's Imperial ...
... British eco- nomic expansion in these decades , see N.F.R. Crafts , British Economic Growth During the Industrial Revolution ( Oxford , 1985 ) . 19. Crouzet , Victorian Economy , pp . 4-5 . 20. Quoted in R. Hyam , Britain's Imperial ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
TABLES CHARTS TABLES | 29 |
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