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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... United States . To be sure , everyone admitted that there were fundamental differences in the political culture and constitutions of those two states , but in ... United States had become 178 PAUL KENNEDY The United States and the Civil War.
... United States . To be sure , everyone admitted that there were fundamental differences in the political culture and constitutions of those two states , but in ... United States had become 178 PAUL KENNEDY The United States and the Civil War.
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... United States was immensely secure , and even if it feared the rise of German sea power , it really had far less to worry about than any of the other major powers.171 The small size of the U.S. military was in many ways a reflection of ...
... United States was immensely secure , and even if it feared the rise of German sea power , it really had far less to worry about than any of the other major powers.171 The small size of the U.S. military was in many ways a reflection of ...
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... United States ' global inter- ests and obligations is nowadays far larger than the country's power to defend them all simultaneously . Unlike those earlier Powers that grappled with the problem of strategical overextension , the United ...
... United States ' global inter- ests and obligations is nowadays far larger than the country's power to defend them all simultaneously . Unlike those earlier Powers that grappled with the problem of strategical overextension , the United ...
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