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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... crisis and emphasized again the central - and stabilizing - position in European affairs which Germany now occupied . But the great Eastern Crisis of 1876-1878 also did a great deal for Germany's relative position . While the small ...
... crisis and emphasized again the central - and stabilizing - position in European affairs which Germany now occupied . But the great Eastern Crisis of 1876-1878 also did a great deal for Germany's relative position . While the small ...
Page 333
... crises- whether in Mukden , Ethiopia , or the Sudetenland - were completely irrelevant , or that there would have been no international problems if the Great Powers had been in harmony . But it is clear that when a regional crisis arose ...
... crises- whether in Mukden , Ethiopia , or the Sudetenland - were completely irrelevant , or that there would have been no international problems if the Great Powers had been in harmony . But it is clear that when a regional crisis arose ...
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... Crisis , pp . 70-71 ; and , more broadly , R. W. Tucker , " Swollen State , Spent Society : Stalin's Legacy to Brezhnev's Russia , " Foreign Affairs , vol . 60 , no . 2 ( Winter 1981-82 ) , pp . 415ff . 131. Brown et al . , State of the ...
... Crisis , pp . 70-71 ; and , more broadly , R. W. Tucker , " Swollen State , Spent Society : Stalin's Legacy to Brezhnev's Russia , " Foreign Affairs , vol . 60 , no . 2 ( Winter 1981-82 ) , pp . 415ff . 131. Brown et al . , State of the ...
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