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 249
... diplomacy did not , of course , affect the distant United States at this time , and it impinged upon Japan only in a regional way , through the Anglo - Japanese alliances of 1902 and 1905. But alliance diplomacy increasingly affected ...
... diplomacy did not , of course , affect the distant United States at this time , and it impinged upon Japan only in a regional way , through the Anglo - Japanese alliances of 1902 and 1905. But alliance diplomacy increasingly affected ...
Page 284
... diplomacy of the nineteenth century , was the increasing influence of mass public opinion upon international affairs during the 1920s and 1930s . In some ways , of course , this was inevitable . Even before the First World War ...
... diplomacy of the nineteenth century , was the increasing influence of mass public opinion upon international affairs during the 1920s and 1930s . In some ways , of course , this was inevitable . Even before the First World War ...
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... Diplomacy in the 1930s , " in Preston ( ed . ) , General Staffs and Diplomacy Before the Second World War , pp . 41-64 ; and Posen , Sources of Military Doctrine , pp . 112ff , 127ff . For full diplomatic details , see Adam- thwaite ...
... Diplomacy in the 1930s , " in Preston ( ed . ) , General Staffs and Diplomacy Before the Second World War , pp . 41-64 ; and Posen , Sources of Military Doctrine , pp . 112ff , 127ff . For full diplomatic details , see Adam- thwaite ...
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