{"id":25215,"date":"2023-02-18T19:40:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T03:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=25215"},"modified":"2023-02-18T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T03:40:45","slug":"book-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-great-powers-economic-change-and-military-conflict-from-1500-to-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/book-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-great-powers-economic-change-and-military-conflict-from-1500-to-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: \u201cTHE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREAT POWERS: ECONOMIC CHANGE AND MILITARY CONFLICT FROM 1500 TO 2000\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1486575017i\/840043.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8390124.Paul_Kennedy\">Paul Kennedy<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER THAT BOLDLY AND LUCIDLY PUTS OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DILEMMAS INTO THE PERSPECTIVE OF WORLD HISTORY.<\/strong><br><br>\u201cA work of almost Toynbeean sweep\u2026 When a scholar as careful and learned as Mr. Kennedy is prompted by contemporary issues to reexamine the great processes of the past, the result can only be an enhancement of our historical understanding\u2026. When the study is written as simply and attractively as this work is, its publication may have a great and beneficient impact. It is to be hoped that Mr. Kennedy\u2019s will have one, at a potentially decisive moment in America\u2019s history.\u201d<br><strong>Michael Howard,&nbsp;<em>The New York Times Book Review<\/em><\/strong><br><br>\u201cImportant, learned, and lucid\u2026 Paul Kennedy\u2019s great achievement is that he makes us see our current international problems against a background of empires that have gone under because they were unaible to sustain the material cost of greatness; and he does so in a universal historical perspective of which Ranke would surely have approved.\u201d<br><strong>James Joll,&nbsp;<em>The New York Review of Books<\/em><\/strong><br><br>\u201cHis strategic-economic approach provides him with the context for a shapely narrative\u2026.Professor Kennedy not only exploits his framework eloquently, he also makes use of it to dig deeper and explore the historical contexts in which some \u2018power centers\u2019 prospered\u2026.But the most commanding purpose of his project\u2026is the lesson he draws from 15 centuries of statecraft to apply to the present scene\u2026.[The book\u2019s] final section is for everyone concerned with the contemporary political scene.\u201d<br><strong>Christopher Lehmann-Haupt,&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em><\/strong><br><br>\u201cKennedy gives epic meaning to the nation\u2019s relative economic and industrial decline.\u201d<br><strong><em>Newsweek<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 Paul Kennedy THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED BESTSELLER THAT BOLDLY AND LUCIDLY PUTS OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DILEMMAS INTO THE PERSPECTIVE OF WORLD HISTORY. \u201cA work of almost Toynbeean sweep\u2026 When a scholar as&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/book-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-great-powers-economic-change-and-military-conflict-from-1500-to-2000\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[111,110],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25216,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25215\/revisions\/25216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}