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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... regime , which would thereby replace the older loyalties of class , church , re- gion , and family ; an economy ... regime there were many others who developed a mentally internalized resistance . But despite such exceptions , there was ...
... regime , which would thereby replace the older loyalties of class , church , re- gion , and family ; an economy ... regime there were many others who developed a mentally internalized resistance . But despite such exceptions , there was ...
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... regime of the structural tensions and crises produced by dictatorship and rearmament was more dictatorship and rearmament .... A war for the plunder of manpower and materials lay square in the dreadful logic of German economic ...
... regime of the structural tensions and crises produced by dictatorship and rearmament was more dictatorship and rearmament .... A war for the plunder of manpower and materials lay square in the dreadful logic of German economic ...
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... regimes . " Henceforward , international affairs would be presented , in even more emotional terms , as a Manichean ... regime to justify its crackdown upon internal dissidents , its tightening grip upon eastern Europe , its forced ...
... regimes . " Henceforward , international affairs would be presented , in even more emotional terms , as a Manichean ... regime to justify its crackdown upon internal dissidents , its tightening grip upon eastern Europe , its forced ...
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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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