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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... Western World In the the year 1500 , the date chosen by numerous scholars to mark the divide between modern and pre- modern times , 1 it was by no means obvious to the inhabitants of Europe that their continent was poised to dominate ...
... Western World In the the year 1500 , the date chosen by numerous scholars to mark the divide between modern and pre- modern times , 1 it was by no means obvious to the inhabitants of Europe that their continent was poised to dominate ...
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... western Europe , just at a time when the Soviet economy had returned to the most rigid forms of socialization and collectivization ; and it took no genius to see that the raison d'être for the plan was to convince Europeans everywhere ...
... western Europe , just at a time when the Soviet economy had returned to the most rigid forms of socialization and collectivization ; and it took no genius to see that the raison d'être for the plan was to convince Europeans everywhere ...
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... western Pacific without alarming its various neigh- bors ; how to maintain U.S. bases in , for example , the Philippines with- out provoking local resentments ; how to reduce the American military presence in South Korea without sending ...
... western Pacific without alarming its various neigh- bors ; how to maintain U.S. bases in , for example , the Philippines with- out provoking local resentments ; how to reduce the American military presence in South Korea without sending ...
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