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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Random House, 1987.Description: xxv, 677 pages maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0394546741 :
  • 9780394546742
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D210 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: Analyzes global politics over the past five centuries focusing on the relationship of economic to military power and its effects on empires.
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Book Book Zvishavane Library Open Shelf D210 KEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 155032 Available BK141947

Includes index. and bibliography

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.

Analyzes global politics over the past five centuries focusing on the relationship of economic to military power and its effects on empires.

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