This is a book about national and international power in the modern"-that is, post-Renaissance-pe riod. It seeks to trace and to explain how the various Great Powers have risen and fallen, relative to each other, over the five centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" of western Europe and the begin nings of the transoceanic, global system of states. Inevitably, it con cerns itself …
This is a book about national and international power in the modern"-that is, post-Renaissance-pe riod. It seeks to trace and to explain how the various Great Powers have risen and fallen, relative to each other, over the five centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" of western Europe and the begin nings of the transoceanic, global system of states. Inevitably, it con cerns itself …