The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

DEDICATION (#ulink_9f8fe672-3a66-5109-8fb9-381d0c25e53f)

MAPS (#ulink_cfa3e65b-7532-544d-a010-acac04074779)

TABLES AND CHARTS (#ulink_1eccee1c-131d-52be-9138-66b531cb1ce8)

INTRODUCTION (#ulink_bb7e0dcd-94a8-57e8-9bcd-f2554750c2d2)

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE PREINDUSTRIAL WORLD

1. The Rise of the Western World (#ulink_7f08489f-7a1f-5585-8e92-85753924c24c)

Ming China (#ulink_baa444e8-8778-57f3-9137-7333a8a19275)

The Muslim World (#ulink_300552b3-203b-535e-a8cf-bae5ba86e213)

Two Outsiders – Japan and Russia (#ulink_d680549d-7c32-5d6c-a312-440c3e03225a)

The ‘European Miracle’ (#ulink_d2b0385e-3266-5cf8-bd49-cb56034607d4)

2. The Habsburg Bid for Mastery, 1519–1659 (#ulink_861779df-ab53-5df1-90c4-ec472678bc8a)

The Meaning and Chronology of the Struggle (#ulink_e09c3d4c-fb44-59a4-953a-188d7553e783)

Strengths and Weaknesses of the Habsburg Bloc (#ulink_69aa3e75-3ba6-59a2-9641-044451cf4999)

International Comparisons (#ulink_70b1cc3d-86db-546d-8685-7b3a90f42280)

War, Money, and the Nation-State (#ulink_40c386dc-ead7-56b0-a06c-2d402cef1c34)

3. Finance, Geography, and the Winning of Wars, 1660–1815 (#ulink_27aaa03f-f11a-552e-87c4-d4eb75ab8867)

The ‘Financial Revolution’ (#ulink_12fe9eb3-82d0-57bb-a3a8-3c2d71f95a93)

Geopolitics (#ulink_16d29007-5fc7-5f82-ae7b-14bb34a5df0d)

The Winning of Wars, 1660–1763 (#ulink_b35224d4-329b-533a-b127-82a3f2504d01)

The Winning of Wars, 1763–1815 (#ulink_4ecd7663-6ecd-5c74-acd7-0d3082554558)

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS IN THE INDUSTRIAL ERA

4. Industrialization and the Shifting Global Balances, 1815–85 (#ulink_9b43251b-7ffc-5589-a1a6-52c8c273d511)

The Eclipse of the Non-European World (#ulink_80f5102f-d479-5610-abba-c95d235d71c8)

Britain as Hegemon? (#ulink_ee7926c8-4299-51ee-8b93-59c7c01a941b)

The ‘Middle Powers’ (#ulink_2ee9b824-33cf-53fa-bfaf-495d58d66688)

The Crimean War and the Erosion of Russian Power (#litres_trial_promo)

The United States and the Civil War (#litres_trial_promo)

The Wars of German Unification (#litres_trial_promo)

Conclusions (#litres_trial_promo)

5. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ‘Middle Powers’: Part One, 1885–1918 (#litres_trial_promo)

The Shifting Balance of World Forces (#litres_trial_promo)

The Position of the Powers, 1885–1914 (#litres_trial_promo)

Alliances and the Drift to War, 1890–1914 (#litres_trial_promo)

Total War and the Power Balances, 1914–18 (#litres_trial_promo)

6. The Coming of a Bipolar World and the Crisis of the ‘Middle Powers’: Part Two, 1919–42 (#litres_trial_promo)

The Postwar International Order

The Challengers (#litres_trial_promo)

The Offstage Superpowers (#litres_trial_promo)

The Unfolding Crisis, 1931–42 (#litres_trial_promo)

STRATEGY AND ECONOMICS TODAY AND TOMORROW

7. Stability and Change in a Bipolar World, 1943–80 (#litres_trial_promo)

‘The Proper Application of Overwhelming Force’ (#litres_trial_promo)

The New Strategic Landscape (#litres_trial_promo)

The Cold War and the Third World (#litres_trial_promo)

The Fissuring of the Bipolar World (#litres_trial_promo)

The Changing Economic Balances, 1950–80 (#litres_trial_promo)

8. To the Twenty-first Century (#litres_trial_promo)

History and Speculation

China’s Balancing Act (#litres_trial_promo)

The Japanese Dilemma (#litres_trial_promo)