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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... passim ; Hobsbawm , Industry and Empire , chs . 2-4 and 6 ; and Crouzet , Victorian Economy , pt . 1 , from where ... passim ; D. Fieldhouse , The Colonial Em- pires : A Comparative Survey from the Eighteenth Century ( London , 1966 ) ...
... passim ; Hobsbawm , Industry and Empire , chs . 2-4 and 6 ; and Crouzet , Victorian Economy , pt . 1 , from where ... passim ; D. Fieldhouse , The Colonial Em- pires : A Comparative Survey from the Eighteenth Century ( London , 1966 ) ...
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... passim . The Austrian side is summarized in Rothenberg , Army of Francis Joseph , pp . 66ff . 89. See again van Creveld , Command in War , pp . 140ff ; M. Howard , The Franco- Prussian War ( London , 1981 edn . ) , passim . 90. For ...
... passim . The Austrian side is summarized in Rothenberg , Army of Francis Joseph , pp . 66ff . 89. See again van Creveld , Command in War , pp . 140ff ; M. Howard , The Franco- Prussian War ( London , 1981 edn . ) , passim . 90. For ...
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... passim ; Solomon ( ed . ) , China Factor , passim ; Segal ( ed . ) , China Factor , passim ; and Harding ( ed . ) , China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s , passim , espec . ch . 6 . 49. Pollack , " China and the Global Strategic ...
... passim ; Solomon ( ed . ) , China Factor , passim ; Segal ( ed . ) , China Factor , passim ; and Harding ( ed . ) , China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s , passim , espec . ch . 6 . 49. Pollack , " China and the Global Strategic ...
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