| Description |
xxv, 677 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Power and Morality Collection at Harvard Business School
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-662) and index |
| Subject |
Military weapons -- Economic aspects
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Military readiness -- Economic aspects.
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Balance of power.
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Economic history.
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History, Modern.
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Military history, Modern.
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Military weapons -- Economic aspects.
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Economics -- history.
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History, 16th Century.
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History, Modern 1601-
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| LC no. |
87009690 |
| ISBN |
0049090194 |
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0394546741 |
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9780049090194 |
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9780394546742 |
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