Western Civilization - History Of European Society

520Chapter 26 had no such population boom and numbered only 39 million people. Much of the economic history, and the political h ...

Europe in the Belle Époque, 1871–1914521 The German leadership of the second industrial revolution was even more notable in chem ...

522Chapter 26 Act (1875) set stiff criminal penalties for compelling a person to commit (or not commit) an act such as join- ing ...

Europe in the Belle Époque, 1871–1914523 the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.” Democratic socialists reject ...

524Chapter 26 1872 less than 25 percent of the total female popula- tion of France worked for wages. In 1906 nearly 40 per- cent ...

Europe in the Belle Époque, 1871–1914525 and Maria Deraismes, the founders of the French League for the Rights of Women, favored ...

526Chapter 26 Feminists also concentrated on other targets. Many favored modernization of legal codes, such as the Napoleonic Co ...

Europe in the Belle Époque, 1871–1914527 The birth of the twentieth century seen in architec- ture had parallels throughout the ...

CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. The Bismarckian System of Alliances, 1871–90 III. The New Imperialism, 1881–1914 A. The Scra ...

Imperialism, War, and Revolution, 1881–1920 529 allies. He achieved both goals through a web of al- liances collectively known a ...

530 Chapter 27 but Pan-Slavs saw Bosnia lost to Austria; the Bulgarians won independence but lost much territory promised to the ...

Imperialism, War, and Revolution, 1881–1920 531 dustrialists to covet cheaper, more manageable, colonial labor. Financiers neede ...

532 Chapter 27 the richest man on earth. His power was so enormous that a colony was named for him (Rhodesia, today Zimbabwe), a ...

Imperialism, War, and Revolution, 1881–1920 533 Illustration 27.1 Imperialism.The German satirical review Simplicissimus publis ...

534 Chapter 27 teenth century appears to be an age of peace for Britain when viewed in a European context, it was an epoch of co ...

Imperialism, War, and Revolution, 1881–1920 535 The scramble for Africa had repercussions in Euro- pean diplomacy, chiefly the r ...

53 6Chapter 27 today Indonesia) or the Spanish (the Philippines) for centuries. China and Japan had largely resisted Western pen ...

Imperialism, War, and Revolution, 1881–1920 537 the entire subcontinent, and Siamese freedom de- pended upon Anglo-French inabil ...

538 Chapter 27 there he joined in the foundation of the French Com- munist Party. Perhaps the most impressive resistance to impe ...

Imperialism, War, and Revolution, 1881–1920 539 roccan Crisis) resulted from a state visit by Kaiser Wil- helm II to Tangier, Mo ...