TY - BOOK AU - BLACK Jeremy TI - Great powers and the quest for hegemony: the world order since 1500 SN - 9780415395809 (pbk) : PY - 2008/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - GLOBAL POWER KW - GREAT POWERS N2 - Study of the competition for hegemony among aspiring powers over the last five centuries which expands on Paul Kennedy's 'The rise and fall of the great powers' and takes the subject beyond the fall of the Soviet Union ER -