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. |
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... million compared with Europe's 50–55 million in the fifteenth century; its remarkable culture; its exceedingly fertile and irrigated plains, linked by a splendid canal system since the eleventh century; and its unified, hierarchic ...
... million compared with Europe's 50–55 million in the fifteenth century; its remarkable culture; its exceedingly fertile and irrigated plains, linked by a splendid canal system since the eleventh century; and its unified, hierarchic ...
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... million subjects—this at a time when Spain had five million and England a mere two and a half million inhabitants. Constantinople in its heyday was bigger than any European city, possessing over 500,000 inhabitants in 1600. Yet the ...
... million subjects—this at a time when Spain had five million and England a mere two and a half million inhabitants. Constantinople in its heyday was bigger than any European city, possessing over 500,000 inhabitants in 1600. Yet the ...
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... million ducats alone —about ten times the emperor's normal income from the Americas at that time. Not surprisingly, he was driven repeatedly to raise fresh loans, but always on worse terms: as the crown's credit tumbled, the interest ...
... million ducats alone —about ten times the emperor's normal income from the Americas at that time. Not surprisingly, he was driven repeatedly to raise fresh loans, but always on worse terms: as the crown's credit tumbled, the interest ...
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... million ducats a year by the 1580s compared with one-tenth of that four decades earlier— rescued the crown's finances, and credit, temporarily; but the armada of 1588 cost 10 million ducats and its sad fate represented a financial as ...
... million ducats a year by the 1580s compared with one-tenth of that four decades earlier— rescued the crown's finances, and credit, temporarily; but the armada of 1588 cost 10 million ducats and its sad fate represented a financial as ...
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... million ducats to the Military Treasury in the Netherlands, considerably more than the sum total (121 million ducats) of the crown's receipts from the Indies.38 Strategically, too, Flanders was much more difficult to defend: the sea ...
... million ducats to the Military Treasury in the Netherlands, considerably more than the sum total (121 million ducats) of the crown's receipts from the Indies.38 Strategically, too, Flanders was much more difficult to defend: the sea ...
Contents
Defense Expenditures of the Great Powers 1930 | |
Annual Indices of Manufacturing Production 1913 | |
The Offstage Superpowers | |
Aircraft Production of the Powers 19321939 | |
Shares of World Manufacturing Output 19291938 | |
The Unfolding Crisis 19311942 | |
Tank Production in 1944 | |
STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS TODAY | |
Size of Navies 16891815 | |
STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN | |
17501900 | |
Britain as Hegemon? | |
The Middle Powers | |
The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power | |
Military Expenditures of the Powers in the Crimean | |
The United States and the Civil | |
Conclusions | |
The Shifting Balance of World Forces | |
Total Population of the Powers 18901938 | |
Urban Population of the Powers and as Percentage | |
National Income Population and per Capita Income | |
Alliances and the Drift to War 18901914 | |
IndustrialTechnological Comparisons of the 1914 | |
U K Munitions Production 19141918 | |
IndustrialTechnological Comparisons with | |
The Coming of a Bipolar World and | |
World Indices of Manufacturing Production 1913 | |
The Challengers | |
Aircraft Production of the Powers 19391945 | |
The New Strategic Landscape | |
Total GNP and per Capita GNP of the Powers | |
The Cold War and the Third World | |
Defense Expenditures of the Powers 19481970 | |
The Fissuring of the Bipolar World | |
The Changing Economic Balances 1950 to 1980 | |
Production of World Manufacturing Industries | |
Average Annual Rate of Growth of Output | |
Shares of Gross World Product 19601980 | |
To the Twentyfirst Century | |
Chinas Balancing | |
The Japanese Dilemma | |
The EECPotential and Problems | |
The Soviet Union and Its Contradictions | |
The Problem of Number One | |
Epilogue | |
Bibliography | |
About the Author | |
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