As John retreated and his coalition collapsed, there could be no doubt that Capetian France had achieved hegemony in Christian Europe.
(Fantasy and science fiction have also risen mightily, if not to the point of achieving hegemony, but they lie outside Anderson's purview).
It's also true that pigs were still raised on farms, most vegetables were seasonal and hyperprocessed junk hadn't yet achieved hegemony.
Given the worldwide and worsening shortages of food, fresh water, fuel, and other resources essential to the maintenance of viable nationhood, one may wonder if any country will ever be able to achieve hegemony.
"The U.S. has gone to great lengths to be the dominant power on the earth, first by achieving hegemony in its own region and then by preventing the rise of a peer competitor in other regions like Asia and Europe".
Originally containing the entire Old Testament in about 380 folios, of which 294 are extant, the Aleppo Codex remains the only known true representative of Aaron ben Asher's text and the most important witness to that particular Masoretic tradition that achieved hegemony throughout Jewry.
Another military historian, Gary Sheffield, says that "most modern scholarship" agrees that Britain's war aims in 1914 were the same as in 1939: "to prevent an authoritarian, militarist, expansionist enemy achieving hegemony in Europe … If the allies had lost", he says, "it would have meant the end of liberal democracy on mainland Europe".
That led the government to adopt a two-pronged strategy explicitly aimed at achieving "media hegemony".
Some centres achieved local hegemony, but never to the extent of extinguishing permanently the pretensions of rival centres.
But generally the United States will invite fewer threats if, rather than attempting to achieve military hegemony, it employs economic, political and law-enforcement tools.
