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The continued existence of all three states, France, England, and the United Provinces of the Netherlands, each with the potential to dispute Habsburg pretensions in the future, again confirmed that the Europe of 1600 would consist of many nations, and not of one hegemony.
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The cause of this transformation, effected by the Meiji Restoration from 1868 onward, was the determination of influential members of the Japanese elite to avoid being dominated and colonized by the West, as seemed to be happening elsewhere in Asia, even if the reform measures to be taken involved the scrapping of the feudal order and the bitter opposition of the samurai clans.39 Japan had to be modernized not because individual entrepreneu..
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The sums acquired by the administrators of this domaine extraordinaire in the period of France's zenith were quite remarkable and in some ways foreshadow Nazi Germany's plunder of its satellites and conquered foes during the Second World War.
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Paul Kennedy |
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Conquest has made me what I am and only conquest can enable me to hold my position.
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Paul Kennedy |
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the beginning of wisdom in human as well as international affairs was knowing when to stop.
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Notwithstanding the damage which western imperialism did to many of the societies in other parts of the world, the exports and general economic growth of these societies do appear to have benefited most when the industrialized nations were in a period of expansion. Less-developed
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Paul Kennedy |
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A large military establishment may, like a great monument, look imposing to the impressionable observer; but if it is not resting upon a firm foundation (in this case, a productive national economy), it runs the risk of a future collapse.
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It was vital for Germany, Admiral Tirpitz urged Kaiser Wilhelm, to build a big navy, so that it would be one of the "four World Powers: Russia, England, America and Germany."10 France, too, must be up there, warned a Monsieur Darcy, for "those who do not advance, go backwards and who goes back goes under."
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Omnidirectional peaceful diplomacy" is all very well for the present, but how useful will it be if an overextended United States does withdraw from its Asian commitments, or finds it impossible to protect the flow of oil from Arabia to Yokohama? How"
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Paul Kennedy |
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Omnidirectional peaceful diplomacy" is all very well for the present, but how useful will it be if an overextended United States does withdraw from its Asian commitments, or finds it impossible to protect the flow of oil from Arabia to Yokohama? How useful if there is another Korean war? How useful if China begins to dominate the region? How"
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The loyalties which existed in the Italian body politic were familial and local, perhaps regional, but not national. The chronic gap between north and south, which the industrialization of the former only exacerbated, and the lack of any great contact with the world outside the village community in so many parts of the peninsula were not helped by the hostility between the Italian government and the Catholic Church, which forbade its member..
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Paul Kennedy |
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The ideals of risorgimento, hailed by native and admiring foreign liberals, did not penetrate very far down Italian society. Recruitment
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Paul Kennedy |
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Italian refrigerators outsold any others in Europe by the 1960s. This
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Paul Kennedy |
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Military power permitted many of Europe's dynasties to keep above the great magnates of their land, and to secure political uniformity and authority (albeit
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Paul Kennedy |
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For all the differences of time and circumstance, the "German question" of the last century was a microcosm of the "European problem" of the present."
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