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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... existed from early on . Printing by movable type had already appeared in eleventh - century China , and soon large numbers of books were in existence . Trade and industry , stimulated by the canal - building and population pressures ...
... existed from early on . Printing by movable type had already appeared in eleventh - century China , and soon large numbers of books were in existence . Trade and industry , stimulated by the canal - building and population pressures ...
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... existed a whole array of specific weak- nesses . No effective body existed , like the Committee of Imperial De- fence or the Chiefs of Staff Sub - Committee in Great Britain , to bring together the military and the nonmilitary branches ...
... existed a whole array of specific weak- nesses . No effective body existed , like the Committee of Imperial De- fence or the Chiefs of Staff Sub - Committee in Great Britain , to bring together the military and the nonmilitary branches ...
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... existed east of Suez.111 ( On the other hand , by the late 1940s it proved useful in gaining Washington's sympa- thies , and in France's case military aid also , to claim that the insur- gents were master - minded by Moscow . ) But the ...
... existed east of Suez.111 ( On the other hand , by the late 1940s it proved useful in gaining Washington's sympa- thies , and in France's case military aid also , to claim that the insur- gents were master - minded by Moscow . ) But the ...
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