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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... Europe became much more divided than before . In western Europe , boosted by the billions of dollars of Ameri- can aid ( especially to the larger states of Britain , France , Italy , and West Germany ) , economic growth shot ahead ...
... Europe became much more divided than before . In western Europe , boosted by the billions of dollars of Ameri- can aid ( especially to the larger states of Britain , France , Italy , and West Germany ) , economic growth shot ahead ...
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... western Pacific without alarming its various neigh- bors ; how to maintain ... Europe - the defense of which is , more than anything else , the strategic ... Europe's total population and income are now larger than the USA's own.212 This ...
... western Pacific without alarming its various neigh- bors ; how to maintain ... Europe - the defense of which is , more than anything else , the strategic ... Europe's total population and income are now larger than the USA's own.212 This ...
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... Western Europe , " Past and Present , vol . 31 ( 1965 ) , pp . 20–38 ; J. H. Shennan , The Origins of the Modern European State 1450-1725 ( London , 1974 ) ; H. Lubasz ( ed . ) , The Development of the Modern State ( New York , 1964 ) ...
... Western Europe , " Past and Present , vol . 31 ( 1965 ) , pp . 20–38 ; J. H. Shennan , The Origins of the Modern European State 1450-1725 ( London , 1974 ) ; H. Lubasz ( ed . ) , The Development of the Modern State ( New York , 1964 ) ...
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