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

By: Paul M KennedyContributor(s): Paul M KennedyMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | ;7/22,Ansari Road ,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002Publication details: New York : Vintage Books , 1989Description: xxv, 677 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 9780006860525Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: World historyDDC classification: 909.82 KEN

Contents:

Strategy and economics in the preindustrial world. The rise of the Western world ; The Habsburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659 ; Finance, geography, and the winning of wars, 1660-1815 -- Strategy and economics in the industrial era. 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 2, 1919-1942 -- Strategy and economics today and tomorrow. Stability and change in a bipolar world, 1943-1980 ; To the twenty-first century.

Summary: About 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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Strategy and economics in the preindustrial world. The rise of the Western world ; The Habsburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659 ; Finance, geography, and the winning of wars, 1660-1815 --
Strategy and economics in the industrial era. 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 2, 1919-1942 --
Strategy and economics today and tomorrow. Stability and change in a bipolar world, 1943-1980 ; To the twenty-first century.

About 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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