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 304
... regime , which would thereby replace the older loyalties of class , church , re- gion , and family ; an economy ... regime there were many others who developed a mentally internalized resistance . But despite such exceptions , there was ...
... regime , which would thereby replace the older loyalties of class , church , re- gion , and family ; an economy ... regime there were many others who developed a mentally internalized resistance . But despite such exceptions , there was ...
Page 309
... regime of the structural tensions and crises produced by dictatorship and rearmament was more dictatorship and rearmament .... A war for the plunder of manpower and materials lay square in the dreadful logic of German economic ...
... regime of the structural tensions and crises produced by dictatorship and rearmament was more dictatorship and rearmament .... A war for the plunder of manpower and materials lay square in the dreadful logic of German economic ...
Page 406
... regime and who often fought well were not sufficient to compensate for this inner corrosion . As the war escalated , more and more Americans questioned the effi- cacy of fighting for the regime in Saigon , and worried at the way in ...
... regime and who often fought well were not sufficient to compensate for this inner corrosion . As the war escalated , more and more Americans questioned the effi- cacy of fighting for the regime in Saigon , and worried at the way in ...
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