The Rise & Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change & Military Conflict 1500-2000 by Paul Kennedy

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

Paul Kennedy

912 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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This study describes how the past 500 years shows that nations which became great powers had to decline as their growth rate slowed and their spending on defence continued to increase and explains how this can be eased or worsened by clever or sho...

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