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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

By Paul Kennedy

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| Paperback | 9780679720195

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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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  • The Cost of Bigness

    In 1833 the young German historian Leopold Ranke published an essay on the great powers that traced the pattern according to which the European powers had risen and fallen between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries; he suggested the factors ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

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  • Paperback 704 Pages
  • Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed
  • ISBN-10: 0679720197
  • ISBN-13: 9780679720195
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jan 15, 1989
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書
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