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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Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Paul M. Kennedy.
another . For example , the coming of the long - range gunned sailing ship and
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Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Paul M. Kennedy.
another . For example , the coming of the long - range gunned sailing ship and
the rise of the Atlantic trades after 1500 was not uniformly beneficial to all the
states of ...
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... productivity was self - sustaining : Where previously an amelioration of the
conditions of existence , hence of survival , and an increase in economic
opportunity had always been followed by a rise in population that eventually
consumed the ...
... productivity was self - sustaining : Where previously an amelioration of the
conditions of existence , hence of survival , and an increase in economic
opportunity had always been followed by a rise in population that eventually
consumed the ...
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Louis XIV and Europe , passim . 48. NCMH , vol . 6 , ch . 7 ; Wolf , Toward a
European Balance of Power , ch . 4 ; McKay and Scott , Rise of the Great Powers
, pp . 43-50 . 49. G. Symcox , The Crisis of French Seapower 1689–1697 ( The
Hague ...
Louis XIV and Europe , passim . 48. NCMH , vol . 6 , ch . 7 ; Wolf , Toward a
European Balance of Power , ch . 4 ; McKay and Scott , Rise of the Great Powers
, pp . 43-50 . 49. G. Symcox , The Crisis of French Seapower 1689–1697 ( The
Hague ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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| Title | The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Power and Morality Collection at Harvard Business School |
| Author | Paul M. Kennedy |
| Contributor | Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection (University of Virginia) |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Random House, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0394546741, 9780394546742 |
| Length | 677 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Economic History History / World |
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