num_pages: 704
description: About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change & Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
titlecomplete: The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change & Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
genres: Political Science, International Relations, History, Politics, European History, World History, War, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Economics
ratings_count: 5624
places: Austro-Hungarian Empire, The United States of America, British Empire
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Wolfson History Prize
publisher: Random House