The rise and fall of the great powers : economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Random House,
[1987]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.