About this title: In a period of dramatic transformation and upheaval, as we wonder what the future holds, this book reminds us that the world has undergone enormous changes before and that an understanding of those changes may tell us something about our own turbulent time.
The authors look to two earlier periods that resemble the present in key respects -- the transition from Dutch to British world hegemony in the eighteenth century and the transition from British to U.S. world hegemony in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In each case, a system wide expansion culminated in crisis and ...
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
ISBN-13:9780816631520ISBN:0816631522
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13:9780816631520ISBN:0816631522
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-13:9780816631520ISBN:0816631522
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
ISBN-13:9780816631520ISBN:0816631522
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