The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000

Author: Paul Kennedy

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE, , , , , Paul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might., , , , Kennedy’s masterwork begins in the year 1500, at a time of various great centres of power including Minh China, the Ottomans, the rising Mughal state, the nations of Europe. But it was the latter which, thr….Read More

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