Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony: The World Order since 1500This 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 |
Contents
Bids for mastery 150090 27 | |
Seventeenthcentury crises 15901680 52 | |
The rise of the great powers 16801774 71 | |
A reshaped world 17751860 89 | |
Accelerated change 18601913 116 | |
Bids for power 191442 137 | |
The fall of empires 194391 159 | |
American hegemony 19912007? 199 | |
Into the future 221 | |
Conclusions 234 | |
Notes 239 | |
Selected further reading 261 | |
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