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 163
... Habsburg Empire , sprawled across Europe from the northern - Italian plain to Galicia , would act as the central fulcrum to the balance , checking French ambitions in western Europe and in Italy , preserving the status quo in Germany ...
... Habsburg Empire , sprawled across Europe from the northern - Italian plain to Galicia , would act as the central fulcrum to the balance , checking French ambitions in western Europe and in Italy , preserving the status quo in Germany ...
Page 166
... Habsburg 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 ...
... Habsburg 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 ...
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... Habsburg Empire 1526-1815 , passim ; Kann , A History of the Habsburg Empire , chs . 3 and 5 . 41. A. Sked , " The Metternich System , 1815-48 , " in Sked ( ed . ) , Europe's Balance of Power 1815-1848 , ch . 5 ; Bridge and Bullen ...
... Habsburg Empire 1526-1815 , passim ; Kann , A History of the Habsburg Empire , chs . 3 and 5 . 41. A. Sked , " The Metternich System , 1815-48 , " in Sked ( ed . ) , Europe's Balance of Power 1815-1848 , ch . 5 ; Bridge and Bullen ...
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