Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Kennedy, Paul M. frey50

The rise and fall of the great powers: Economy change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy - New York Random House 1987 - 677 p.

Includes Biography and index

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.

Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires.

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History--Modern
Economic history
Military history--Modern

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