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 43
... major dynasties , Cas- tile , Aragon , Burgundy , and Austria , the later acquisitions by his house of the crowns of Bohemia , Hungary , Portugal , and , for a short time , even of England , and the coincidence of these dynastic events ...
... major dynasties , Cas- tile , Aragon , Burgundy , and Austria , the later acquisitions by his house of the crowns of Bohemia , Hungary , Portugal , and , for a short time , even of England , and the coincidence of these dynastic events ...
Page 439
... major argument of this book has been that this uneven pace of economic growth has had crucial long - term impacts upon the relative military power and strategical position of the members of the states system . This again is unsurprising ...
... major argument of this book has been that this uneven pace of economic growth has had crucial long - term impacts upon the relative military power and strategical position of the members of the states system . This again is unsurprising ...
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... major Great Power aggressions run the risk of trigger- ing a nuclear war , and with a post - 1945 " de - Nazified " generation of German politicians running affairs in Bonn and East Berlin , the notion of any future Germanic bid for ...
... major Great Power aggressions run the risk of trigger- ing a nuclear war , and with a post - 1945 " de - Nazified " generation of German politicians running affairs in Bonn and East Berlin , the notion of any future Germanic bid for ...
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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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