TY - BOOK AU - Kennedy, Paul AU - Kennedy,Paul TI - The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 U1 - W09 PY - 1987/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - History KW - Military KW - Economic Growth KW - Modern N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Strategy and dEconomics in the Preindustrial world The rise of the Western world.........3 The habsburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659........31 Finance, Geography, and the winning of Wars, 1660-1815............73 2. Strategy and economics in the industrial era Industrialization and the shifting global balances, 1815-1885............143 The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the middle powers : Part one, 1885-1918...........194 The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the Middle powers : Part two, 1919-1942.......275 3. Strategy and economics today and tomorrow Stability and change in a Bipolar world, 1943-1980............347 To the twenty-first century ..............438 ER -