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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliography: pages 541-662

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maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The rise and fall of the great powers

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

by Paul Kennedy

Sub title

economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000

Summary

Surveys global politics over the past five hundred years and discusses current problems facing the major powers

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

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