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 231
... imperial power with troops , ships , raw materi- als , and money - and this was an age when politicians in Whitehall were carefully cultivating their kinsmen overseas in the cause of a more organized " imperial defense . " 120 Finally ...
... imperial power with troops , ships , raw materi- als , and money - and this was an age when politicians in Whitehall were carefully cultivating their kinsmen overseas in the cause of a more organized " imperial defense . " 120 Finally ...
Page 287
... imperial thrust into Abyssinia in the mid - 1930s . Only the far larger shocks administered by the Second World War would really loosen these imperial controls . Nevertheless , this colonial unrest was of some importance to ...
... imperial thrust into Abyssinia in the mid - 1930s . Only the far larger shocks administered by the Second World War would really loosen these imperial controls . Nevertheless , this colonial unrest was of some importance to ...
Page 515
... Imperial Spain around 1600 or the British Empire around 1900 , is the inheritor of a vast array of strategical commitments which had been made decades earlier , when the nation's political , economic , and military capacity to influence ...
... Imperial Spain around 1600 or the British Empire around 1900 , is the inheritor of a vast array of strategical commitments which had been made decades earlier , when the nation's political , economic , and military capacity to influence ...
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