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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... taxation system , although even here the Basque provinces were immune . The landed gentry , strongly represented in the Castilian Cortes , was usually willing to vote taxes from which they were exempt . Furthermore , taxes such as the ...
... taxation system , although even here the Basque provinces were immune . The landed gentry , strongly represented in the Castilian Cortes , was usually willing to vote taxes from which they were exempt . Furthermore , taxes such as the ...
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... tax - the chief direct tax for so much of the eighteenth century - allowed for no privileged exceptions and was also " invisible " to the greater part of society ; and these various taxes were discussed and then authorized by an ...
... tax - the chief direct tax for so much of the eighteenth century - allowed for no privileged exceptions and was also " invisible " to the greater part of society ; and these various taxes were discussed and then authorized by an ...
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... taxes and , in 1799 , direct income tax were introduced to meet the national emergency . Thus , by the period of the Napoleonic War , despite a population less than half that of France , Britain was for the first time ever raising more ...
... taxes and , in 1799 , direct income tax were introduced to meet the national emergency . Thus , by the period of the Napoleonic War , despite a population less than half that of France , Britain was for the first time ever raising more ...
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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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