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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... least a billion livres , virtually all of which was paid by floating loans at rates of interest at least double that available to the British government . In both countries , servicing the debt consumed half the state's annual ...
... least a billion livres , virtually all of which was paid by floating loans at rates of interest at least double that available to the British government . In both countries , servicing the debt consumed half the state's annual ...
Page 123
... least £ 16 million . Yet it is doubtful whether Britain's steadily augmented domination of the extra - European theat- ers or its peripheral operations against Dunkirk and Toulon compen- sated for France's growing power within Europe ...
... least £ 16 million . Yet it is doubtful whether Britain's steadily augmented domination of the extra - European theat- ers or its peripheral operations against Dunkirk and Toulon compen- sated for France's growing power within Europe ...
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... least worrying . Much more disturbing was the potential French threat to the Rhineland , in 1830 , again in 1840 , and finally in the 1860s . All those periods of tension merely confirmed what the quarrels with Vienna and occasional ...
... least worrying . Much more disturbing was the potential French threat to the Rhineland , in 1830 , again in 1840 , and finally in the 1860s . All those periods of tension merely confirmed what the quarrels with Vienna and occasional ...
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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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