About national and international power in the "modern" or PostRenaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen andfallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "newmonarchies" in W. Europe.
【作者简介】
Paul Kennedy is Professor of History and Director ofInternational Security Studies at Yale University and author of theinternational best-sellers, 'The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers'and "Preparing for the Twenty-First Century'.
【目录】
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 Two, 1919–1942 Strategy and Economics Today and Tomorrow Stability and Change in a Bipolar World, 1943–1980 To the Twenty-first Century
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