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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... territories which stretched from Gibraltar to Hungary and from Sicily to Amsterdam , exceeding in size anything which had been seen in Europe since the time of Charlemagne seven hundred years earlier . Stemming origi- nally from Austria ...
... territories which stretched from Gibraltar to Hungary and from Sicily to Amsterdam , exceeding in size anything which had been seen in Europe since the time of Charlemagne seven hundred years earlier . Stemming origi- nally from Austria ...
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... territorial - juridi- cal terms , was the emergence of a cluster of nation - states - Poland , Czechoslovakia ... territories turned into British and French mandates , distantly PORTUGAL Map 10 : Europe After the First World War 275.
... territorial - juridi- cal terms , was the emergence of a cluster of nation - states - Poland , Czechoslovakia ... territories turned into British and French mandates , distantly PORTUGAL Map 10 : Europe After the First World War 275.
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... territory , 7 million were killed or taken away , as were 20 out of 23 million pigs . 137,000 tractors , 49,000 grain ... territories ( Rumanian oil , Finnish timber , Polish coal ) . It was true that the Soviet Union had outproduced ...
... territory , 7 million were killed or taken away , as were 20 out of 23 million pigs . 137,000 tractors , 49,000 grain ... territories ( Rumanian oil , Finnish timber , Polish coal ) . It was true that the Soviet Union had outproduced ...
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