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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... reasons why any particular state was drawn into this larger context , two more general causes were chiefly responsible ... reason for the much more widespread and interlinked pattern of warfare after 1500 was the creation of a dynastic ...
... reasons why any particular state was drawn into this larger context , two more general causes were chiefly responsible ... reason for the much more widespread and interlinked pattern of warfare after 1500 was the creation of a dynastic ...
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... reason was that although some Frenchmen argued that the conflict should be fought at sea and in the colonies , the natural tendency in Paris was to attack Britain via Hanover , the strategical Achilles ' heel of the islanders . This ...
... reason was that although some Frenchmen argued that the conflict should be fought at sea and in the colonies , the natural tendency in Paris was to attack Britain via Hanover , the strategical Achilles ' heel of the islanders . This ...
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... reason why , despite extraordinary efforts by the Germans to retain command of the air , 27 their cities and factories and railway lines were increasingly devastated — as was , even more so , the almost totally unprotected Japanese ...
... reason why , despite extraordinary efforts by the Germans to retain command of the air , 27 their cities and factories and railway lines were increasingly devastated — as was , even more so , the almost totally unprotected Japanese ...
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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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