In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land
surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed
some form of political or economic ascendancy on over 80 percent of
the globe. The basic structure of global and European politics in
the twentieth century was fashioned in the previous century out of
the clash of competing imperial interests and the effects, both
beneficial and harmful, of the imperial powers on the societies
they dominated. This encyclopedia offers current, detailed
information on the major world powers of the nineteenth century and
their global empires, as well as on the people, events, and ideas,
both European and non-European, that shaped the Age of Imperialism.
Besides detailed entries that describe the formation, structure,
and influence of the economic and territorial empires built by
Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan, the
Ottoman Turks, and the United States prior to World War I, the
encyclopedia also offers entries on such important figures as:
BLJoseph Chamberlain BLGeorges Clemenceau BLMustapha Kemal
BLAlexander Kerensky BLRudyard Kipling BLHirobumi Ito BLHelmuth von
Moltke BLIbn Saud Other entries cover such important events as the
following: BLBattle of Blood River BLBoxer Insurrection BLCongress
of Berlin BLFashoda Incident BLItalo-Turkish War of 1911-12
BLJameson Raid And still other entries cover such countries,
treaties, alliances, and movements as: BLEgypt BLEntente Cordiale
BLGerman Confederation BLGuinea BLJadidism BLIndia BLTreaty of
Inkiar Skelessi Besides over 800 clearly written and highly
informative entries, the encyclopedia includes primary documents, a
chronology, and extensiveintroductory essay, a bibliography, a
guide to related topics, and a series of useful maps.
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