Instead of being a cluster of rivaling small states, partly
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- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers whole source · open book
Instead of being a cluster of rivaling small states, partly under foreign sovereignty and always under the threat of foreign intervention, there was now a solid block of thirty million people growing so swiftly that it was coming close to France’s total population by 1914. Its army and its navy in this period were not especially large, but as Tables 19 and 20 show, they were still very respectable.
chapter: The Position of the Powers, 1885–1914