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The rise and fall of the great powers : economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000

Paul M. Kennedy (Author)
Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires
eBook, English, 1987
Random House, New York, NY, 1987
Weltgeschichte 1500-1980
1 online resource (xxv, 677 pages : maps)
9780307773562, 0307773566
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The rise of the western world
The Habsburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659
Finance, geography, and the winning of wars, 1660-1815
Industrialization and the shifting global balances, 1815-1885
The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "middle powers" : part one, 1885-1918
The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "middle powers" : part two, 1919-1942
Stability and change in a bipolar world, 1943-1980
To the twenty-first century
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010