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

Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999. . Hardback in red, gilt to spine, in full colour pictorial jacket. Size: 242x160mm. viii,280 pages plus 16 pages of b/w pictures. With notes, bibliography and index. For reasons of internal dispute and extenal threat the years 1639-1674 saw the emergence of a centrally administered army and navy with the fiscal arrangerments to maintain them. These factors turned the sick man of Europe into a world power. Very Good near Fine in a Very Good jacket which is now in removable plastic sleeve. ISBN:0-7509-2025-4