Download or read book The Great Powers (Routledge Revivals) written by Max Beloff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-issued work, first published in 1959, is a collection of essays by British historian Max Beloff, designed to help us to understand and interpret the political problems of the twentieth century. The essays are divided into three key areas: the challenges and limitations of interpretation from a historian's perspective, the appropriate scale for political activity and organisation in the modern world, and the emergence of the United States of America as the most powerful nation on the planet.