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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Page 16
The Tartar khanate of the Crimea remained a powerful foe ; its troops sacked
Moscow in 1571 , and it remained independent until the late eighteenth century .
Challenges from the West were even more threatening ; the Poles , for example ...
The Tartar khanate of the Crimea remained a powerful foe ; its troops sacked
Moscow in 1571 , and it remained independent until the late eighteenth century .
Challenges from the West were even more threatening ; the Poles , for example ...
Page 321
The loss of Poland , Finland , and the Baltic states removed many of the country '
s industrial plants , railways , and farms , and the prolonged fighting destroyed
much that remained . The stupendous decline in manufacturing - down to 13 ...
The loss of Poland , Finland , and the Baltic states removed many of the country '
s industrial plants , railways , and farms , and the prolonged fighting destroyed
much that remained . The stupendous decline in manufacturing - down to 13 ...
Page 435
... almost all respects of true national power and - by clinging to its own
entrepreneurial creed - remained open to the stimulus of managerial initiative
and technological charge which its Marxist rival would have far greater difficulty
in accepting .
... almost all respects of true national power and - by clinging to its own
entrepreneurial creed - remained open to the stimulus of managerial initiative
and technological charge which its Marxist rival would have far greater difficulty
in accepting .
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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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