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  <titleInfo>
    <title>The rise and fall of the great powers</title>
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    <namePart>Kennedy, Paul</namePart>
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    <publisher>Random House</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1988</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>898 p.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1. The Rise of the Western World

Ming China

The Muslim World

Two Outsiders - Japan and Russia

The 'European Miracle'

2. The Habsburg Bid for Mastery, 1519-1659

The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc International Comparisons

War, Money, and the Nation-State

3. Finance, Geography, and the Winning of Wars, 1660-1815

The 'Financial Revolution' The Winning of Wars, 1660-1763

Geopolitics

The Winning of Wars, 1763-1815

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA

4. Industrialization and the Shifting Global Balances, 1815-85

The Eclipse of the Non-European World

Britain as Hegemon? The 'Middle Powers' The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">/Paul Kennedy</note>
  <note>English</note>
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    <topic>Rise--Fall--Great--Powers</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">909.82 K38</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">(hbk)</identifier>
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