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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... struggles in Europe were either subsumed into or eclipsed by what seemed to contemporaries to be a far larger contest for the mastery of the continent . The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle Although there were 31 2: The Habsburg ...
... struggles in Europe were either subsumed into or eclipsed by what seemed to contemporaries to be a far larger contest for the mastery of the continent . The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle Although there were 31 2: The Habsburg ...
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... Struggle for Mastery in Europe , pp . 201-17 ; W. E. Mosse , The European Powers and the German Question 1848–1870 ( Cambridge , 1958 ) ; E. Kolb ( ed . ) , Europa und die Reichsgründung ( Historische Zeitschrift , Beiheft 6 , Munich ...
... Struggle for Mastery in Europe , pp . 201-17 ; W. E. Mosse , The European Powers and the German Question 1848–1870 ( Cambridge , 1958 ) ; E. Kolb ( ed . ) , Europa und die Reichsgründung ( Historische Zeitschrift , Beiheft 6 , Munich ...
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... Struggle for Mastery in Europe , pp . 228ff ; Langer , European Alliances and Alignments , chs . 3-5 ; B. Jelavich , The Great Powers , the Ottoman Empire , and the Straits Question 1870-1887 ( Bloomington , Ind . , 1973 ) . 104. Quoted ...
... Struggle for Mastery in Europe , pp . 228ff ; Langer , European Alliances and Alignments , chs . 3-5 ; B. Jelavich , The Great Powers , the Ottoman Empire , and the Straits Question 1870-1887 ( Bloomington , Ind . , 1973 ) . 104. Quoted ...
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