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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... Percentage Increases in World Production , 1948-1968195 1948-1958 1958-1968 Agricultural goods 32 % 30 % Minerals 40 % 58 % Manufactures 60 % 100 % To some extent , this disparity can be explained by the great in- creases in ...
... Percentage Increases in World Production , 1948-1968195 1948-1958 1958-1968 Agricultural goods 32 % 30 % Minerals 40 % 58 % Manufactures 60 % 100 % To some extent , this disparity can be explained by the great in- creases in ...
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... share of the world's wealth , production , and trade which it had possessed in 1945. Yet mention of that year is , of course , the most important fact in understanding the American rela- tive decline . As argued above , the United ...
... share of the world's wealth , production , and trade which it had possessed in 1945. Yet mention of that year is , of course , the most important fact in understanding the American rela- tive decline . As argued above , the United ...
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... world economy . " 256 In sum , it had maintained the liberal international order , upon which it , itself , increasingly de- pended ; and while its share of world production and wealth had shrunk , perhaps faster than need have been the ...
... world economy . " 256 In sum , it had maintained the liberal international order , upon which it , itself , increasingly de- pended ; and while its share of world production and wealth had shrunk , perhaps faster than need have been the ...
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