HIS 11 - The world at the beginning of the 20th Century: Turn of the Century

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Age of Nationalism 1850-1914

The new balance of power

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:

• nationalism
• liberalism
• socialism
• imperialism
• fascism
• nazism
• industrialisation

• The world at the beginning of the twentieth century: Crisis within imperialism
  An excellent book chapter by Professor Charles Maier, covering changes to colonialism and imperialism, global inequalities and the alliance system.
• Antisemitic Parties and Movements
  An article from the Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Part 1 outlines the appearance of antisemitic groups in Germany around 1880 and, shortly thereafter, in Austria-Hungary and elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

Ideas for search terms

• anarchism

• anti-semitism

• capitalism

• democracy

• imperialism

• industrialisation

• liberalism

• militarism

• nationalism

• socialism

• trade unionism

• traditional diplomacy

• urbanisation

Ideas to think about

• the unequal distribution of wealth and power between countries, between social classes, between men and women and responses to these

• 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
• nationalist demands and increased awareness of cultural identity
• the decline of dynastic authority
• the class system across different cultures and popular demands for social, economic and political reform
• population growth, increased urbanisation and the decline of the countryside
• slavery and worker exploitation and responses within individual cultures
• technological change and its economic, political, social and cultural impact
• emerging ideologies and their challenges to traditional social, political, economic and religious structures
• traditional diplomacy, aggression and war as instruments of foreign policy