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 168
... fact for most French producers after 1815 was the existence of an overwhelmingly dominant and pow- erful industrial producer not only as their nearest neighbor but as a mighty force in all foreign markets and sometimes even in their own ...
... fact for most French producers after 1815 was the existence of an overwhelmingly dominant and pow- erful industrial producer not only as their nearest neighbor but as a mighty force in all foreign markets and sometimes even in their own ...
Page 494
... fact is that this is no longer the case . It may have been that the CIA's famous 1977 forecast that Soviet oil production would soon peak , and then rapidly decline , was premature ; nonethe- less , Russian oil output did drop a little ...
... fact is that this is no longer the case . It may have been that the CIA's famous 1977 forecast that Soviet oil production would soon peak , and then rapidly decline , was premature ; nonethe- less , Russian oil output did drop a little ...
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... facts that so many of its immigrants were fleeing from socially rigid circumstances elsewhere ; that the sheer size of ... fact that the poorest one - third of American society has not been " mobil- ized " to become regular voters . But ...
... facts that so many of its immigrants were fleeing from socially rigid circumstances elsewhere ; that the sheer size of ... fact that the poorest one - third of American society has not been " mobil- ized " to become regular voters . But ...
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