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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... North Sea , the Mediterranean , and the Black Sea . This trade was , predictably , interrupted in part by war and affected by local disasters such as crop failures and plagues ; but in general it continued to expand , increasing ...
... North Sea , the Mediterranean , and the Black Sea . This trade was , predictably , interrupted in part by war and affected by local disasters such as crop failures and plagues ; but in general it continued to expand , increasing ...
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... North won . The first and most obvious reason - assuming that willpower would remain equal on each side - was the disproportion in resources and population . It may have been true that the South enjoyed the morale advantage of fighting ...
... North won . The first and most obvious reason - assuming that willpower would remain equal on each side - was the disproportion in resources and population . It may have been true that the South enjoyed the morale advantage of fighting ...
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... North possessed several dozen such establishments . Although it took time for the Union's mari- time supremacy to make itself felt - during which period blockade runners brought European - made munitions to the Confederate Army , and ...
... North possessed several dozen such establishments . Although it took time for the Union's mari- time supremacy to make itself felt - during which period blockade runners brought European - made munitions to the Confederate Army , and ...
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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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