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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... European core as the eighteenth cen- tury unfolded . But the really significant alterations in the Great Power system during that century occurred on the flanks of Europe , and even farther afield . Certain of the western European ...
... European core as the eighteenth cen- tury unfolded . But the really significant alterations in the Great Power system during that century occurred on the flanks of Europe , and even farther afield . Certain of the western European ...
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... European Miracle : Environments , Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia ( Cambridge , 1981 ) . 7. Jones , European Miracle , ch . 9 ; F. Braudel , The Mediterranean and the Mediter- ranean World in the Age of ...
... European Miracle : Environments , Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia ( Cambridge , 1981 ) . 7. Jones , European Miracle , ch . 9 ; F. Braudel , The Mediterranean and the Mediter- ranean World in the Age of ...
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... Europe 1815-1975 , vol . 1 ; and in B. R. Mitchell , European Historical Statistics 1750-1975 ( 2nd edn . , New York , 1981 ) , e.g. , coal figures on p . 381 , etc. For comparative analyses of the two nations ' economies , see again ...
... Europe 1815-1975 , vol . 1 ; and in B. R. Mitchell , European Historical Statistics 1750-1975 ( 2nd edn . , New York , 1981 ) , e.g. , coal figures on p . 381 , etc. For comparative analyses of the two nations ' economies , see again ...
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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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