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 83
All three were poised to exploit the booming “ Atlantic economy " of the
eighteenth century , and La Rochelle was particularly well sited for the triangular
trade to West Africa and the West Indies . Alas for such mercantile aspirations ,
the French ...
All three were poised to exploit the booming “ Atlantic economy " of the
eighteenth century , and La Rochelle was particularly well sited for the triangular
trade to West Africa and the West Indies . Alas for such mercantile aspirations ,
the French ...
Page 96
The steady shift in the main trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
and the great profits which could be made from colonial and commercial ventures
in the West Indies , North America , the Indian subcontinent , and the Far East ...
The steady shift in the main trade routes from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
and the great profits which could be made from colonial and commercial ventures
in the West Indies , North America , the Indian subcontinent , and the Far East ...
Page 245
Faced with this avalanche of cheap American food , continental European
farmers agitated for higher tariffs — which they usually got ; in Britain , which had
already sacrificed its grain farmers for the cause of free trade , it was the flood of ...
Faced with this avalanche of cheap American food , continental European
farmers agitated for higher tariffs — which they usually got ; in Britain , which had
already sacrificed its grain farmers for the cause of free trade , it was the flood of ...
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The rise and fall of the great powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000
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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