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100		1	_aKENNEDY, Paul
245		0	_aThe rise and fall of the great powers: _beconomic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 _c Paul Kennedy
260			_aLondon: _bFontana Press, _c1989
300			_axxviii , 898p.
500			_aIncludes bibliograhical and Index
520			_aA 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.
650			_aHISTORY _xECONOMIC
650			_aHISTORY _xMILITARY _xECONOMIC ASPECTS
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