The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Paul Kennedy
Читать онлайн.| Название | The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers |
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| Автор произведения | Paul Kennedy |
| Жанр | Историческая литература |
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| Издательство | Историческая литература |
| Год выпуска | 0 |
| isbn | 9780008226473 |
STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL WORLD
1. The Rise of the Western World
Two Outsiders – Japan and Russia
2. The Habsburg Bid for Mastery, 1519–1659
The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc
War, Money, and the Nation-State
3. Finance, Geography, and the Winning of Wars, 1660–1815
The Winning of Wars, 1660–1763
The Winning of Wars, 1763–1815
STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA
4. Industrialization and the Shifting Global Balances, 1815–85
The Eclipse of the Non-European World
The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power
The United States and the Civil War
The Wars of German Unification
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, 1885–1914
Alliances and the Drift to War, 1890–1914
Total War and the Power Balances, 1914–18
6. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ‘Middle Powers’: Part Two, 1919–42
The Postwar International Order
STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS TODAY AND TOMORROW
7. Stability and Change in a Bipolar World, 1943–80
‘The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force’
The Cold War and the Third World
The Fissuring of the Bipolar World
The Changing Economic Balances, 1950–80
8. To the Twenty-first Century
The EEC – Potential and Problems
The Soviet Union and Its ‘Contradictions’
The United States: the Problem of Number One in Relative Decline