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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... later decades of the eleventh century there existed an enormous iron industry in north China , producing around 125,000 tons per annum , chiefly for military and governmental use - the army of over a million men was , for example , an ...
... later decades of the eleventh century there existed an enormous iron industry in north China , producing around 125,000 tons per annum , chiefly for military and governmental use - the army of over a million men was , for example , an ...
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... later , and then - in 1519 - he succeeded his paternal grandfather Maximilian I both as Holy Roman emperor and as ruler of the hereditary Habsburg lands in Austria . As the Emperor Charles V , therefore , he embodied all four ...
... later , and then - in 1519 - he succeeded his paternal grandfather Maximilian I both as Holy Roman emperor and as ruler of the hereditary Habsburg lands in Austria . As the Emperor Charles V , therefore , he embodied all four ...
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... later as they wrestled with the logistical problems involved in the relief of the Phi- lippines , Hong Kong , and Malaya . Assuming a steady Japanese growth in East Asia , it would only be by the most extreme endeavors that any other ...
... later as they wrestled with the logistical problems involved in the relief of the Phi- lippines , Hong Kong , and Malaya . Assuming a steady Japanese growth in East Asia , it would only be by the most extreme endeavors that any other ...
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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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