Jeremy Black

Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony

The World Order since 1500

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Produktbeschreibung

This timely and authoritative book is a general overview of Great Power politics and strategy from 1500 to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780415395809
• ISBN-10: 0415395801
• Artikelnr.: 21615867

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. A world-renowned authority in history and archives; he is the author of seventy books, including The British Seaborne Empire, Rethinking Military History and Introduction to Global Military History.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: The Kennedy Thesis Considered 2.Bids for Mastery, 1500
1590 3.Seventeenth
Century Crises, 1590
1680 4.The Rise of the Great Powers, 1680
1774 5.A Reshaped World, 1775
1860 6.Accelerated Change, 1860
1913 7.Bids for Power, 1914
1943 8.The Fall of Empires, 1944
1991 9.American Hegemony, 1991
2007? 10.Into the Future 11.Conclusions