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BK

New York : Vintage Books, 1989

xxv, 677 stran : mapy ; 21 cm

ISBN 0-679-72019-7 (brožováno)

History/political science

Obsahuje bibliografii na stranách 625-662, bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík

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Contents // Acknowledgments vii // Maps xi // Tables and Charts xiii // Introduction xv // STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS // IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL WORLD // The Rise of the Western World 3 // Ming China 4 // The Muslim World 9 // Two Outsiders-Japan and Russia 14 // The "European Miracle” 16 // 2. // The Habsburg Bid for Mastery, 1519-1659 31 // The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle 32 // Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc 41 // International Comparisons 55 // War, Money, and the Nation-State 70 // Finance, Geography, and the Winning of Wars, 1660-1815 73 // // The "Financial Revolution” 76 // Geopolitics 86 // The Winning of Wars, 1660-1763 100 // The Winning of Wars, 1763-1815 115 // STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS // IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA // 4. // Industrialization and the Shifting Global Balances, 1815-1885 143 // The Eclipse of the Non-European World 147 // Britain as Hegemon? 151 // The "Middle Powers” 158 // The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power 170 // ix // Contents // The United States and the Civil War 178 // The Wars of German Unification 182 // Conclusions 191 // 5. // The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis // of the "Middle Powers”: Part One, 1885-1918 194 // The Shifting Balance of World Forces 198 // The Position of the Powers, 1885-1914 202 // Alliances and the Drift to War, 1890-1914 249 // Total War and the Power Balances, 1914-1918 256 // The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis // of the "Middle Powers”: Part

Two, 1919-1942 275 // The Postwar International Order 275 // The Challengers 291 // The Offstage Superpowers 320 // The Unfolding Crisis, 1931-1942 333 // STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS // TODAY AND TOMORROW // Stability and Change in a Bipolar World, 1943-1980 347 // "The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force” 347 // The New Strategic Landscape 357 // The Cold War and the Third World 373 // The Fissuring of the Bipolar World 395 // The Changing Economic Balances, 1950 to 1980 413 // 8. // To the Twenty-first Century 438 // History and Speculation 438 // China’s Balancing Act 447 // The Japanese Dilemma 458 // The EEC-Potential and Problems 471 // The Soviet Union and Its "Contradictions” 488 // The United States: The Problem of Number One in Relative Decline 514 // Epilogue 536 // Notes 541 // Bibliography 625 // Index 663