A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

twentieth century, under the charismatic leader- ship of Eugene V. Debs, the Social Democratic Party attempted to win over the w ...

fact that the presidency gave a reforming lead and so helped to change the climate of American pub- lic opinion. The Progressive ...

land needed for it was ceded to the US. This American presence was intended to ensure that no European power could take over Cub ...

1 Anchorage PACIFIC OCEAN ATLANTIC OCEAN HUDSON BAY CARIBBEAN SEA BAHAMA ISLANDS BELIZE GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR HONDURAS NICARAGUA ...

Filipino struggle for independence (1899–1902). This was imperialism. The US staked its claim for a share of the China market wh ...

About one-fifth of humanity lives in China, the most populous nation of the world. But until the nineteenth century, though in t ...

was the defeat of the Manchu Ch’ing dynasty by the invasion of the ‘barbarians’ of the West. The West saw an opportunity to trad ...

Chinese: ‘a China in arms will be a big power at some future day’, he wrote; the Western powers should make sure that ‘the China ...

The advocates of Westernisation always faced one serious emotional and intellectual problem. The very people they wished to emul ...

Foreign encroachments on Chinese integrity provoked the strongest reaction among the young students and intellectuals. Peking Un ...

wounded, the communists broke through the encirclement and fought their way north for 6,000 miles on the epic ‘Long March’. Yet ...

the Kuomintang. He set himself as his first task to gain military control over China. But, though his success had been astonishi ...

The continent of Asia can be divided into three regions, each in a different relationship to the West. Southern and south-east A ...

was expanded originally to meet these national defence needs before a single railway line was con- structed. National defence ne ...

contributed to the very different development of the two nations after the incursion of the West in eastern Asia. In 1895 Japan ...

Japan, its financial resources weakened, was in no position to continue the war in the hope of exact- ing better terms. On 5 Sep ...

protectorate, including insistence on employing Japanese ‘advisers’ in financial, military and administrative affairs in the Chi ...

foreign policy. Great-power cooperation proved singularly ineffective in China and certainly did not reduce either that country’ ...

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1 Part III THE GREAT WAR, REVOLUTION AND THE SEARCH FOR STABILITY ...