The rise and fall of the great powers: Economic change and military conflict, from 1500 to 2000

(Curso Tarapow) (NCC 2013)

(Curso Urrutia) (NCC 2011)

Introduction

1. The rise of the Western World

2. The Hasburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659

3. Finance, geography and the winning of wars, 1660-1815

4. Industrialization and the shifting global balances, 1815-1885

5. The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "Middle Powers": Part One, 1885-1918

6. The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "Middle Powers": Part Two, 1919-1942

7. Stability and change in a bipolar world, 1943-1980

8. To the twenty-first century.

Epilogue