Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. A world-renowned authority in history and archives; he is the author of seventy books, including The British Seaborne Empire, Rethinking Military History and Introduction to Global Military History.

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• 1.Introduction: The Kennedy Thesis Considered 2.Bids for Mastery, 1500-1590 3.Seventeenth-Century Crises, 1590-1680 4.The Rise of the Great Powers, 1680-1774 5.A Reshaped World, 1775-1860 6.Accelerated Change, 1860-1913 7.Bids for Power, 1914-1943 8.The Fall of Empires, 1944-1991 9.American Hegemony, 1991-2007? 10.Into the Future 11.Conclusions

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. A world-renowned authority in history and archives; he is the author of seventy books, including The British Seaborne Empire, Rethinking Military History and Introduction to Global Military History.

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• 1.Introduction: The Kennedy Thesis Considered 2.Bids for Mastery, 1500-1590 3.Seventeenth-Century Crises, 1590-1680 4.The Rise of the Great Powers, 1680-1774 5.A Reshaped World, 1775-1860 6.Accelerated Change, 1860-1913 7.Bids for Power, 1914-1943 8.The Fall of Empires, 1944-1991 9.American Hegemony, 1991-2007? 10.Into the Future 11.Conclusions

Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. A world-renowned authority in history and archives; he is the author of seventy books, including The British Seaborne Empire, Rethinking Military History and Introduction to Global Military History.

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• 1.Introduction: The Kennedy Thesis Considered 2.Bids for Mastery, 1500-1590 3.Seventeenth-Century Crises, 1590-1680 4.The Rise of the Great Powers, 1680-1774 5.A Reshaped World, 1775-1860 6.Accelerated Change, 1860-1913 7.Bids for Power, 1914-1943 8.The Fall of Empires, 1944-1991 9.American Hegemony, 1991-2007? 10.Into the Future 11.Conclusions