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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... territories which stretched from Gibraltar to Hungary and from Sicily to Amsterdam , exceeding in size anything which had been seen in Europe since the time of Charlemagne seven hundred years earlier . Stemming origi- nally from Austria ...
... territories which stretched from Gibraltar to Hungary and from Sicily to Amsterdam , exceeding in size anything which had been seen in Europe since the time of Charlemagne seven hundred years earlier . Stemming origi- nally from Austria ...
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... territories , a political - dynastic tour de force which required enormous sustained resources of material and ingenuity to keep going . As such , it provides one of the greatest examples of strategical over- stretch in history ; for ...
... territories , a political - dynastic tour de force which required enormous sustained resources of material and ingenuity to keep going . As such , it provides one of the greatest examples of strategical over- stretch in history ; for ...
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... territorial - juridi- cal terms , was the emergence of a cluster of nation - states - Poland , Czechoslovakia ... territories turned into British and French mandates , distantly PORTUGAL OTO Map 10 : Europe After the First World. 275.
... territorial - juridi- cal terms , was the emergence of a cluster of nation - states - Poland , Czechoslovakia ... territories turned into British and French mandates , distantly PORTUGAL OTO Map 10 : Europe After the First World. 275.
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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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