Great Powers and the Quest for Hegemony

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

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.

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