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 38
... Spanish authority there by the mid - 1560s was answered by the dispatch northward of an army under the Duke of Alba and by the imposition of a military despotism - in turn provoking full - scale resist- ance in the seagirt , defensible ...
... Spanish authority there by the mid - 1560s was answered by the dispatch northward of an army under the Duke of Alba and by the imposition of a military despotism - in turn provoking full - scale resist- ance in the seagirt , defensible ...
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... Spanish army under its general , Cardinal- Infante , in turn forced Richelieu to decide upon direct French involve- ment , ordering troops across various frontiers in 1635. For years beforehand , France had been the tacit , indirect ...
... Spanish army under its general , Cardinal- Infante , in turn forced Richelieu to decide upon direct French involve- ment , ordering troops across various frontiers in 1635. For years beforehand , France had been the tacit , indirect ...
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... Spanish coastline ; even the seizure of corn ships off French ports during the dreadful winter of 1709 could not bring Louis's largely self - sufficient empire to its knees . This allied capacity to wound but not kill was even more ...
... Spanish coastline ; even the seizure of corn ships off French ports during the dreadful winter of 1709 could not bring Louis's largely self - sufficient empire to its knees . This allied capacity to wound but not kill was even more ...
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