KENNEDY, Paul <br/><br/>
The rise and fall of the great powers:   economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 
Paul Kennedy 
 - London:   Fontana Press,   1989 
 - xxviii , 898p. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliograhical and Index 
<br/><br/> A book about national and international power in the 'modern' that is, post-Renaissance period. It seeks to trace and to explain how the various Great Powers have risen and fallen, relative to each other, over the five centuries since the formation of the 'new monarchies' of western Europe and the beginnings of the transoceanic, global system of states. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0006860524 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>HISTORY --ECONOMIC<br/>HISTORY --MILITARY --ECONOMIC ASPECTS