WHEELER, JAMES SCOTT: - The MAKING of a WORLD POWER.

Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999. . New book not previously read but with some shelfwear from long storage. Trade Paperback in full colour pictorial card cover. Size: 232x155mm. viii,280 pages plus 16 pages of b/w pictures. With notes, bibliography and index. ISBN:0-7509-2321-0. 1639-1674 saw the emergence of a centrally administered army and navy with a fiscal policy to maintain them. These factors turned the sick man of Europe into a world power.