ABSTRACT

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

chapter 2|21 pages

Bids for mastery, 1500–90

chapter 3|16 pages

Seventeenth-century crises, 1590–1680

chapter 4|15 pages

The rise of the great powers, 1680–1774

chapter 5|23 pages

A reshaped world, 1775–1860

chapter 6|18 pages

Accelerated change, 1860–1913

chapter 7|19 pages

Bids for power, 1914–42

chapter 8|34 pages

The fall of empires, 1943–91

chapter 9|18 pages

American hegemony, 1991–2007?

chapter 10|11 pages

Into the future

chapter 11|4 pages

Conclusions