Great Powers and Geopolitical Change

Acknowledgments vii Introduction ix 1 The Premature Death of Geography 1 2 Geography, Geopolitics, and Geostrategy 21 3 The Geopolitical Change of the Sixteenth Century 40 4 The Geostrategy of Venice (1000 1600) 51 5 The Geostrategy of the Ottoman Empire (1300-1699) 88 6 The Geostrategy of Ming China (1364-1644) 123 7 Lessons for the United States 164 Notes 179 Bibliography 229 Index 249