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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... political fragmentation ( see Maps 1 and 2 ) . This was not an accidental or short - lived state of affairs , such as occurred briefly in China after the collapse of one empire and before its successor dynasty could gather up again the ...
... political fragmentation ( see Maps 1 and 2 ) . This was not an accidental or short - lived state of affairs , such as occurred briefly in China after the collapse of one empire and before its successor dynasty could gather up again the ...
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... politics . In a long - term sense , China repre- sents a political and strategic force too significant to be regarded as an adjunct to either Moscow or Washington or simply as an inter- mediate power.49 As a final point , it needs to be ...
... politics . In a long - term sense , China repre- sents a political and strategic force too significant to be regarded as an adjunct to either Moscow or Washington or simply as an inter- mediate power.49 As a final point , it needs to be ...
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... political consensus . To a degree which amazes most Europeans , the United States in the twen- tieth century has managed to avoid ostensible " class " politics . This is due , one imagines , to the facts that so many of its immigrants ...
... political consensus . To a degree which amazes most Europeans , the United States in the twen- tieth century has managed to avoid ostensible " class " politics . This is due , one imagines , to the facts that so many of its immigrants ...
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