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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... eastern front.49 Yet even before the Third Reich had collapsed , Stalin was switching dozens of divisions to the Far East , ready to unleash them upon Japan's denuded Kwantung Army in Manchuria when the time was ripe ; which turned out ...
... eastern front.49 Yet even before the Third Reich had collapsed , Stalin was switching dozens of divisions to the Far East , ready to unleash them upon Japan's denuded Kwantung Army in Manchuria when the time was ripe ; which turned out ...
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... eastern Mediterranean and Middle East , indicates how swiftly the idealistic strands in American foreign policy were being joined , if not altogether replaced by geopolitical calculation . It was with this perception of the global ...
... eastern Mediterranean and Middle East , indicates how swiftly the idealistic strands in American foreign policy were being joined , if not altogether replaced by geopolitical calculation . It was with this perception of the global ...
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... East , Russia was still , relatively speaking , a landlocked superpower . Moreover , it now seems clear that Stalin's view of the world outside was one overwhelmingly charged with caution and sus- picion - toward the West , which , he ...
... East , Russia was still , relatively speaking , a landlocked superpower . Moreover , it now seems clear that Stalin's view of the world outside was one overwhelmingly charged with caution and sus- picion - toward the West , which , he ...
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