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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... Treaty of the Pyrenees, the political plurality of Europe— containing five or six major states, and various smaller ones—was an indisputable fact. Which of those leading states was going to benefit most from further shifts within the ...
... Treaty of the Pyrenees, the political plurality of Europe— containing five or six major states, and various smaller ones—was an indisputable fact. Which of those leading states was going to benefit most from further shifts within the ...
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... Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. Obviously, their enemies did firmly believe that the Habsburg monarchs were bent upon absolute domination. Thus, the Elizabethan writer Francis Bacon could in 1595 luridly describe the “ambition and ...
... Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. Obviously, their enemies did firmly believe that the Habsburg monarchs were bent upon absolute domination. Thus, the Elizabethan writer Francis Bacon could in 1595 luridly describe the “ambition and ...
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... Treaty of Cambrai, he was at war with Charles V over those possessions both in the 1530s and in the 1540s. Given the imbalance in forces between France and the Habsburg territories at this time, it was probably not too difficult for ...
... Treaty of Cambrai, he was at war with Charles V over those possessions both in the 1530s and in the 1540s. Given the imbalance in forces between France and the Habsburg territories at this time, it was probably not too difficult for ...
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... Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (1559), which brought the FrancoSpanish conflict to a close. It was also acknowledged, in its way, by Charles V's own abdications—in 1555 as Holy Roman emperor to his brother Ferdinand I (emperor, 1555–1564) ...
... Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis (1559), which brought the FrancoSpanish conflict to a close. It was also acknowledged, in its way, by Charles V's own abdications—in 1555 as Holy Roman emperor to his brother Ferdinand I (emperor, 1555–1564) ...
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... Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) were not particularly harsh, but in forcing Spain to come to terms with its great archenemy, they revealed that the age of Habsburg predominance in Europe was over. All that was left as a “war aim” for ...
... Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) were not particularly harsh, but in forcing Spain to come to terms with its great archenemy, they revealed that the age of Habsburg predominance in Europe was over. All that was left as a “war aim” for ...
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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