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Internet History Sourcebooks Project
A huge collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. The following pages are particularly useful:
World at the turn of the Century
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Ideas for search terms
• anarchism
• anti-semitism
• capitalism
• democracy
• imperialism
• industrialisation
• liberalism
• militarism
• nationalism
• socialism
• trade unionism
• traditional diplomacy
• urbanisation
Ideas to think about
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attempts of industrialised nations to bring all areas of the world under their political, economic, social, cultural and religious influence and the colonial and economic rivalries that resulted from this
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nationalist demands and increased awareness of cultural identity
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the decline of dynastic authority
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the class system across different cultures and popular demands for social, economic and political reform
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population growth, increased urbanisation and the decline of the countryside
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slavery and worker exploitation and responses within individual cultures
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technological change and its economic, political, social and cultural impact
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emerging ideologies and their challenges to traditional social, political, economic and religious structures
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traditional diplomacy, aggression and war as instruments of foreign policy