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 90
... position to grapple with the same problem . To the Aus- trian Habsburgs , this was nothing new . The awkwardly shaped con- glomeration of territories they ruled ( Austria , Bohemia , Silesia , Moravia , Hungary , Milan , Naples , Sicily ...
... position to grapple with the same problem . To the Aus- trian Habsburgs , this was nothing new . The awkwardly shaped con- glomeration of territories they ruled ( Austria , Bohemia , Silesia , Moravia , Hungary , Milan , Naples , Sicily ...
Page 231
... position around 1900 was as weakened as it was to be in the late 1930s , and to argue , on the other , that there had been " a tremendous expansion of British power " prior to 1914 , upsetting the world's balances , 122 are equally one ...
... position around 1900 was as weakened as it was to be in the late 1930s , and to argue , on the other , that there had been " a tremendous expansion of British power " prior to 1914 , upsetting the world's balances , 122 are equally one ...
Page 341
... position of being unable to damage the other decisively . If the Battle of Britain had rendered impossible a German cross - Channel invasion , the imbalance of land forces made a British military entry into Europe quite out of the ...
... position of being unable to damage the other decisively . If the Battle of Britain had rendered impossible a German cross - Channel invasion , the imbalance of land forces made a British military entry into Europe quite out of the ...
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