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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... output increased from 35.4 to 128 million tons and steel production from 4 to 17.7 million tons , electricity output rose sevenfold , machine - tool figures over twentyfold , and tractors nearly fortyfold.131 By the late 1930s , indeed ...
... output increased from 35.4 to 128 million tons and steel production from 4 to 17.7 million tons , electricity output rose sevenfold , machine - tool figures over twentyfold , and tractors nearly fortyfold.131 By the late 1930s , indeed ...
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... output ; and it would alter still further with the general expansion of world manufacturing produc- tion ( which rose more than threefold between 1953 and ... Output per 432 PAUL KENNEDY Average Annual Rate of Growth of Output per Capita,
... output ; and it would alter still further with the general expansion of world manufacturing produc- tion ( which rose more than threefold between 1953 and ... Output per 432 PAUL KENNEDY Average Annual Rate of Growth of Output per Capita,
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... output ( although its average import of 35 million tons of grain each year provided a clue ! ) . Even the " good " year of 1983 did not make the USSR self - sufficient - and it was followed in turn by yet another disastrous year of cold ...
... output ( although its average import of 35 million tons of grain each year provided a clue ! ) . Even the " good " year of 1983 did not make the USSR self - sufficient - and it was followed in turn by yet another disastrous year of cold ...
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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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