The modern era would see three periods of vast imperialism and aggressivecolonialism. From the 15th century to the middle of the 18th century, England, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain built empires in the Americas, India, and the East Indies. A strong negative reaction to imperiali...
The transformation of urban America accelerated in the 1890s as port cities specializing in connecting the countryside with world markets gave way to the development of factories and financial centers throughout the nation. The second was the growth of a third-party movement known as Populism. Farm...
This chapter deals with the reflections made in the period of the return to colonialism from the end of the 1800s to the First World War. With the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War at the beginning of the 1900s, the heterodox free tr... R Allio 被引量: 0发表: 2020年 The Troub...
British raj, period of direct British rule over the Indian subcontinent following the uprising of 1857 and the abolition of the East India Company’s role in managing the region. It was instituted with the Government of India Act of 1858 and lasted until
The cultural expansion of America: Imperialism, civic design and the Philippines in the early 1900sartcivic designculturenationhoodthe Philippines imperialism... I Morley 被引量: 0发表: 0年 The Colonial World as Mission and Mandate: Leprosy and Empire, 1900-1940 The history of medicine in twentie...
Imperialism was reborn in the West with the emergence of the modern nation-state and the age of exploration and discovery. It is to this modern type of empire building that the termimperialismis quite often restricted. Colonies were established not only in more or less sparsely inhabited places...
arriving to deliver the "New York World" to a crowd of newspaper carriers in Union Square, New York. Sample articles from Chronicling America: AmericanHistoric NewspapersAs one of the few sources of public information, newspapers had reached unprecedented influence and importance. Journalistic giants,...
This process began with the first voyage of Columbus in 1492 and ended in the middle of the 20th century with the process of decolonization. Imperialism was a major factor in European and world history for about five centuries and still influences world culture to this day. Many of the ...
in Africa, and Spain took over most of South America. The European rulers gained wealth through the control and sale of natural resources from their imperial territories and collected taxes from their subjects spread across the globe, making European nations among the most powerful in the world. ...
troops were decimated by Louverture's men in a new round of warfare, and fled the island in defeat the next year. On New Year’s Day of 1804, the former slaves declared an independent country named Haiti, only the second colony in the New World to achieve independence after the United ...