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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Page 97
... British wealth throughout the eighteenth century , and exports ( whose ratio to total national income was probably less than 10 percent until the 1780s ) were often subject to strong foreign competition and to tariffs , for which no ...
... British wealth throughout the eighteenth century , and exports ( whose ratio to total national income was probably less than 10 percent until the 1780s ) were often subject to strong foreign competition and to tariffs , for which no ...
Page 155
... British Empire existed in a power - political vacuum , which is why its colonial army could be kept relatively low . There were , it is true , limits to British imperialism - and certain problems , with the expanding American republic ...
... British Empire existed in a power - political vacuum , which is why its colonial army could be kept relatively low . There were , it is true , limits to British imperialism - and certain problems , with the expanding American republic ...
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... British Imperial Interests and the Policy of Appeasement , " and W. R. Louis , " The Road to Singapore : British Imperialism in the Far East 1932- 1942 , " both in Mommsen and Kettenacher ( eds . ) , Fascist Challenge ; A. J. Marder ...
... British Imperial Interests and the Policy of Appeasement , " and W. R. Louis , " The Road to Singapore : British Imperialism in the Far East 1932- 1942 , " both in Mommsen and Kettenacher ( eds . ) , Fascist Challenge ; A. J. Marder ...
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