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

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Random House, [1987]Copyright date: ©1987Description: xxv, 677 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780394546742
  • 0394546741
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 909.82
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.
Summary: Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-662) and index.

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.

Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires.

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