Download or read book The Rise of the Great Powers 1648 - 1815 written by Derek Mckay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heyday of the European states system was in the century before the First World War. How the system of five great powers in conscious equilibrium came into being is the central theme of this book.