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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... late eighteenth century ; while the ease with which loans could be raised eventually saddled the Dutch government with an enormous burden of debt , paid for by excise duties which increased both wages and prices to uncompetitive levels ...
... late eighteenth century ; while the ease with which loans could be raised eventually saddled the Dutch government with an enormous burden of debt , paid for by excise duties which increased both wages and prices to uncompetitive levels ...
Page 190
... late 1877. If the Pan - Slavs in Russia were later to blame Bismarck for supervising the Berlin Conference which formalized those humiliating concessions , the fact remained that many among the St. Petersburg elite were more than ever ...
... late 1877. If the Pan - Slavs in Russia were later to blame Bismarck for supervising the Berlin Conference which formalized those humiliating concessions , the fact remained that many among the St. Petersburg elite were more than ever ...
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... late 1920s , where the old European order of treaty privileges , commercial penetration , and occasional gunboat actions was beginning to lose ground to competing alternative " orders " proposed by Russia , the United States , and Japan ...
... late 1920s , where the old European order of treaty privileges , commercial penetration , and occasional gunboat actions was beginning to lose ground to competing alternative " orders " proposed by Russia , the United States , and Japan ...
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