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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... Empire in no way corresponded to the wars it might be called upon to fight.46 All this is not to antedate the demise of the empire . Its staying power , as many historians have remarked , was quite extraordinary : having survived the ...
... Empire in no way corresponded to the wars it might be called upon to fight.46 All this is not to antedate the demise of the empire . Its staying power , as many historians have remarked , was quite extraordinary : having survived the ...
Page 542
... Empire ( London , 1938 ) ; H. Inalcik , The Ottoman Empire : The Classical Age 1300-1600 ( New York , 1973 ) ; M. A. Cook ( ed . ) , A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730 ( Cambridge , 1976 ) ; M.G.S. Hodgson , The Venture of Islam ...
... Empire ( London , 1938 ) ; H. Inalcik , The Ottoman Empire : The Classical Age 1300-1600 ( New York , 1973 ) ; M. A. Cook ( ed . ) , A History of the Ottoman Empire to 1730 ( Cambridge , 1976 ) ; M.G.S. Hodgson , The Venture of Islam ...
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... Empire 1415-1825 ( London , 1969 ) ; V. Magalhaes - Godinho , L'économie de l'Empire Portugais aux XVe et XVIe siècles ( Paris , 1969 ) ; B. W. Diffie and C. D. Winius , Foundations of the Portuguese Empire 1415-1580 ( Minneapolis ...
... Empire 1415-1825 ( London , 1969 ) ; V. Magalhaes - Godinho , L'économie de l'Empire Portugais aux XVe et XVIe siècles ( Paris , 1969 ) ; B. W. Diffie and C. D. Winius , Foundations of the Portuguese Empire 1415-1580 ( Minneapolis ...
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