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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... century con- tests like the War of Spanish Succession , the Seven Years War , and the Napoleonic War ; and of the two world wars of this century . A lengthy , grinding war eventually turns into a test of the relative capacities of each ...
... century con- tests like the War of Spanish Succession , the Seven Years War , and the Napoleonic War ; and of the two world wars of this century . A lengthy , grinding war eventually turns into a test of the relative capacities of each ...
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... century . The Muslim World Even the first of the European sailors to visit China in the early sixteenth century , although impressed by its size , population , and riches , might have observed that this was a country which had turned in ...
... century . The Muslim World Even the first of the European sailors to visit China in the early sixteenth century , although impressed by its size , population , and riches , might have observed that this was a country which had turned in ...
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... century role in , 157-58 after 1860 , 192-93 merchant vs. warrior states in , 445-46 militarization of , 443-44 nineteenth - century growth of , 143 Pacific region in , 441-42 post - World War I instability in , 280-82 technology ...
... century role in , 157-58 after 1860 , 192-93 merchant vs. warrior states in , 445-46 militarization of , 443-44 nineteenth - century growth of , 143 Pacific region in , 441-42 post - World War I instability in , 280-82 technology ...
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