The rise and fall of the great powers: economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000

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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.;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. From the Trade Paperback edition. 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.