The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000With 200,000 hardcover copies in print, this book has received worldwide attention. Kennedy explains how the various world powers have risen and fallen over the five centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in Western Europe. |
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India ) could assist the imperial power with troops , ships , raw materials , 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 .
India ) could assist the imperial power with troops , ships , raw materials , 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 .
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Neither of them , for a variety of reasons , could prevent the further extension of
that colonial order under the League mandates ; but their rhetoric and influence
seeped across imperial demarcation zones and interacted with the mobilization
of ...
Neither of them , for a variety of reasons , could prevent the further extension of
that colonial order under the League mandates ; but their rhetoric and influence
seeped across imperial demarcation zones and interacted with the mobilization
of ...
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This test of American abilities will be the greater because it , like 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
...
This test of American abilities will be the greater because it , like 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
...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictYale historian Kennedy surveys the ebb and flow of power among the major states of Europe from the 16th centurywhen Europe's preeminence first took shapethrough and beyond the present erawhen great ... Read full review
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| Title | The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 History/Political Science |
| Authors | Paul Kennedy, Paul M. Kennedy, Professor Paul Kennedy |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0679720197, 9780679720195 |
| Length | 677 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economic History History / Modern / 20th Century History / World |
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