Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xxv, 677 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
Note |
Includes index. |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 541-662. |
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. |
Subject |
History, Modern.
|
|
Economic history.
|
|
Military history, Modern.
|
|
Balance of power.
|
|
Military readiness -- Economic aspects.
|
ISBN |
0394546741: $24.95 |
|