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 152
... decades following 1815. Given the sheer size of China's population ( and , later , Russia's ) and the obvious fact that agricultural production and distribution formed the basis of national wealth every- where , even in Britain prior to ...
... decades following 1815. Given the sheer size of China's population ( and , later , Russia's ) and the obvious fact that agricultural production and distribution formed the basis of national wealth every- where , even in Britain prior to ...
Page 416
... decades . There can be no doubt that the economic transformation of Japan after 1945 offered the most spectacular example of sustained moderni- zation in these decades , outclassing almost all of the existing " ad- vanced " countries as ...
... decades . There can be no doubt that the economic transformation of Japan after 1945 offered the most spectacular example of sustained moderni- zation in these decades , outclassing almost all of the existing " ad- vanced " countries as ...
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... decades it had risen to be double Britain's and nearly half the United States ' . To be sure , its rate of growth over those decades was unusually swift , because of special conditions . Yet according to many assessments , 75 the Japa ...
... decades it had risen to be double Britain's and nearly half the United States ' . To be sure , its rate of growth over those decades was unusually swift , because of special conditions . Yet according to many assessments , 75 the Japa ...
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