The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Kennedy, Paul - 1987

Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0394546741 . VG/VG condition "This volume examines the phenomenon of the rise and decline of nations. This is only one of the most recent attempts to answer a philosophical and historiographic question first asked by Pre-Socratic Ionian philosophers over 2500 years ago. The assumption that the US would be supplanted by Japan has turned out to be incorrect, and with the climatic crisis the very idea of who supplants whom may be moot." ; 9.30 X 6.30 X 1.70 inches; 677 pp pages .

From the back cover: "Although the United States is at present still in a class of its own economically and perhaps ever militarily, it cannot avoid confronting the two great tests which challenge the longevity of every major power..."
Can the United States preserve a balance between defense requirements and maintain commitments? Can it preserve technological and economic bases? Inow runs the risk of "imperial overstretch" and must face the...fact that the sum total of its global interests and obligations is larger than its "power to defend them all simultaneously."
Book - Very Good condition. Front gray cover has impressed title in silver gilt. Black spine also has silver gilt title. Pages 251-262 have a soft crease at the bottom corner. Slight wear on bottom edge. Some wear on corners. Good reading copy.
Dust Jacket - Fair condition. Both top and bottom edges have chips and tears.
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677 pages. Heavy book.

NY: Random House, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Quarter-cloth. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 677pp. An analysis of the linkage between economic and military power in the rise and fall of empires. Silver lettering on cover and spine. Gray hardback in black quarter cloth. Unmarked and apparently unread. Near Fine.

London: Fontana Press, 1989. Brochado / Paperback / Broché. Bom / Good / Bon. In-8º (197x130). 1 Vol. de XXVIII-898 pp. Ilustrated.

Unwin Hyman Limited, London, 1988..

London, Unwin, 1988 reprint.. c.676pp. 8vo. Original cloth and dustwrapper, in very good condition.

Unwin Hyman, 1988, London.. 24x16. Encuadernación editorial con sobrecubierta. 678 pgs. Ilustraciones en b/n. Texto en inglés. 662838

New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Paperback, 21 cm, 677 pp. Eerste katern vast geplakt. Cond.: goed / good. ISBN: 0679720197. .

Random House, 2000. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 23.5 x 15 cm 677 pages Volume: 1 volume