{"product_id":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-great-powers-isbn-9780679720195","title":"The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers","description":"About national and international power in the \"modern\" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the \"new monarchies\" in W. Europe.Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Maps \u003cbr\u003e Tables and Charts \u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSTRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. The Rise of the Western World\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ming China \u003cbr\u003e The Muslim World\u003cbr\u003e Two Outsiders—Japan and Russia \u003cbr\u003e The \"European Miracle\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. The Habsburg Bid for Mastery, 1519–1659\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle \u003cbr\u003e Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc \u003cbr\u003e International Comparisons \u003cbr\u003e War, Money, and the Nation-State \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. Finance, Geography, and the Winning of Wars, 1660–1815\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The \"Financial Revolution\" \u003cbr\u003e Geopolitics \u003cbr\u003e The Winning of Wars, 1660\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1763 \u003cbr\u003e The Winning of Wars, 1763\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1815 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSTRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. Industrialization and the Shifting Global Balances, 1815\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1885\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Eclipse of the Non-European World \u003cbr\u003e Britain as Hegemon? \u003cbr\u003e The \"Middle Powers\" \u003cbr\u003e The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power\u003cbr\u003e The United States and the Civil War \u003cbr\u003e The Wars of German Unification \u003cbr\u003e Conclusions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the \"Middle Powers\": Part One, 1885-1918 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Shifting Balance of World Forces \u003cbr\u003e The Position of the Powers, 1885\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1914 \u003cbr\u003e Alliances and the Drift to War, 1890\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1914 \u003cbr\u003e Total War and the Power Balances, 1914\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1918 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the \"Middle Powers\": Part Two, 1919\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1942\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Postwar International Order \u003cbr\u003e The Challengers \u003cbr\u003e The Offstage Superpowers\u003cbr\u003e The Unfolding Crisis, 1931\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSTRATEGY AND ECONOMICS TODAY AND TOMORROW\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. Stability and Change in a Bipolar World, 1943\u003cb\u003e–\u003c\/b\u003e1980\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force\" \u003cbr\u003e The New Strategic Landscape \u003cbr\u003e The Cold War and the Third World \u003cbr\u003e The Fissuring of the Bipolar World \u003cbr\u003e The Changing Economic Balances, 1950 to 1980 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8. To the Twenty-first Century \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e History and Speculation \u003cbr\u003e China's Balancing Act\u003cbr\u003e The Japanese Dilemma \u003cbr\u003e The EEC—Potential and Problems \u003cbr\u003e The Soviet Union and Its \"Contradictions\" \u003cbr\u003e The United States: The Problem of Number One in Relative Decline \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cb\u003ePaul Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author or editor of thirteen books, including \u003ci\u003ePreparing for the Twenty-first Century\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the Great Powers\u003c\/i\u003e, which has been translated into more than twenty languages. He serves on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and several other publications. Educated at Newcastle University and Oxford University, he is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University and of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung in Bonn.By the Author of Preparing for the Twenty-First Century","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300307488997,"sku":"NP9780679720195","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679720195.jpg?v=1767741246","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-great-powers-isbn-9780679720195","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}