Jeremy Black

Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony (eBook, ePUB)

The World Order since 1500

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several historical case-studies, each of which throws light on both the power in question and the international system of the period, and how it had developed from the preceding period. The point of departure for this

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134157044
• Artikelnr.: 38247240

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