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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... early sixteenth century , although impressed by its size , population , and riches , might have observed that this was a country which had turned in on itself . That remark certainly could not then have been made of the Ottoman Empire ...
... early sixteenth century , although impressed by its size , population , and riches , might have observed that this was a country which had turned in on itself . That remark certainly could not then have been made of the Ottoman Empire ...
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... early years of the first Five - Year Plan , by which time the regular Soviet armed forces had settled down to about 600,000 men , backed by a large but inefficient militia twice that size . The Manchurian crisis and Hitler's accession ...
... early years of the first Five - Year Plan , by which time the regular Soviet armed forces had settled down to about 600,000 men , backed by a large but inefficient militia twice that size . The Manchurian crisis and Hitler's accession ...
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... Early Modern France 1560-1715 ( Oxford , 1977 ) , ch . 1 . 56. Nef , War and Human Progress , pp . 103ff ; Wolfe , Fiscal System of Renaissance France , ch . 8 ; Salmon , Society in Crisis , pp . 301ff ; E. J. Hamilton , " Origin and ...
... Early Modern France 1560-1715 ( Oxford , 1977 ) , ch . 1 . 56. Nef , War and Human Progress , pp . 103ff ; Wolfe , Fiscal System of Renaissance France , ch . 8 ; Salmon , Society in Crisis , pp . 301ff ; E. J. Hamilton , " Origin 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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