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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

Autor Paul M. Kennedy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 1988
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780679720195
ISBN-10: 0679720197
Pagini: 704
Dimensiuni: 118 x 217 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books.
Editura: Vintage Publishing

Descriere

With 200,000 hardcover copies in print, this book has received worldwide attention. Kennedy explains how the various world powers have risen and fallen over the five centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in Western Europe.

Notă biografică

Paul Kennedy

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Maps
Tables and Charts
Introduction

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL WORLD

1. The Rise of the Western World
Ming China
The Muslim World
Two Outsiders—Japan and Russia
The "European Miracle"

2. The Habsburg Bid for Mastery, 1519–1659
The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc
International Comparisons
War, Money, and the Nation-State

3. Finance, Geography, and the Winning of Wars, 1660–1815
The "Financial Revolution"
Geopolitics
The Winning of Wars, 16601763
The Winning of Wars, 17631815

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA

4. Industrialization and the Shifting Global Balances, 18151885
The Eclipse of the Non-European World
Britain as Hegemon?
The "Middle Powers"
The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power
The United States and the Civil War
The Wars of German Unification
Conclusions

5. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the "Middle Powers": Part One, 1885-1918
The Shifting Balance of World Forces
The Position of the Powers, 18851914
Alliances and the Drift to War, 18901914
Total War and the Power Balances, 19141918

6. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the "Middle Powers": Part Two, 19191942
The Postwar International Order
The Challengers
The Offstage Superpowers
The Unfolding Crisis, 19311942

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS TODAY AND TOMORROW

7. Stability and Change in a Bipolar World, 19431980
"The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force"
The New Strategic Landscape
The Cold War and the Third World
The Fissuring of the Bipolar World
The Changing Economic Balances, 1950 to 1980

8. To the Twenty-first Century
History and Speculation
China's Balancing Act
The Japanese Dilemma
The EEC—Potential and Problems
The Soviet Union and Its "Contradictions"
The United States: The Problem of Number One in Relative Decline

Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index