Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony
Professor Jeremy Black
This 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 book is Paul Kennedy’s 1988 masterpiece, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. That iconic book, with its enviable mastery of the sources and its skilful integration of political, military and economic history, was a great success when it appeared and ... Read more
Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony will be of great interest to students of international relations, strategic studies and international history.
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