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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Page 89
Furthermore , every war against the maritime powers involved a certain division
of French energies and attention from the continent , and thus made a successful
land campaign less likely . Torn between fighting in Flanders , Germany , and ...
Furthermore , every war against the maritime powers involved a certain division
of French energies and attention from the continent , and thus made a successful
land campaign less likely . Torn between fighting in Flanders , Germany , and ...
Page 96
This British advantage of location was described nearly a century ago in Mahan's
classic work The Influence of Sea Power upon History ( 1890 ) : ... if a nation be
so situated that it is neither forced to defend itself by land nor induced to seek ...
This British advantage of location was described nearly a century ago in Mahan's
classic work The Influence of Sea Power upon History ( 1890 ) : ... if a nation be
so situated that it is neither forced to defend itself by land nor induced to seek ...
Page 106
The balance of power was secure on land , while at sea Britain was
unchallenged . Small wonder that the Whigs , who returned to office on George I's
accession in 1714 , were soon anxious to preserve the Utrecht settlement and
were even ...
The balance of power was secure on land , while at sea Britain was
unchallenged . Small wonder that the Whigs , who returned to office on George I's
accession in 1714 , were soon anxious to preserve the Utrecht settlement and
were even ...
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Contents
World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
2 | 17 |
The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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| Title | The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Power and Morality Collection at Harvard Business School |
| Author | Paul M. Kennedy |
| Contributor | Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection (University of Virginia) |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Random House, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0394546741, 9780394546742 |
| Length | 677 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Economic History History / World |
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