Examines the relationship of economic to military power as it affects the rise and fall of empires Contents : - The rise of the western world - The Habsburg bid for mastery, 1519-1659 - Finance, geography, and the winning of wars, 1660-1815 - Industrialization and the shifting global balances, 1815-1885 - The coming of a bipolar world and the crisis of the "middle powers" : part one, 18…