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A History of the Modern World
A History of the Modern World, 9/e
R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
European Civilization, 1871-1914: Economy and Politics

Chapter Outline

LXX1. The "Civilized World"

  1. Materialistic and Nonmaterialistic Ideals
    1. [Image Berlin restuarant]
    2. [Image Viennese coffee house]
    3. [Image Dining]
    4. [Image Bourgeois family life, c. 1850]
    5. [Image Bourgeois family, c. 1900]
    6. [Secondary Discussion/Images] Victorian fashions]
    7. [Primary Source Sanitation]
    8. [Primary Source Michael Faraday, The filth of the Thames, 1855]
    9. [Image Ocean liner]
    10. [Secondary Discussion Spread of Railroads in Europe]
    11. [Image Railroad]
    12. [Image Streetcar]
    13. [Image Telephone]
    14. [Image Transatlantic telegraph]
    15. [Image Electric street lights in a German city, c. 1884]
    16. [Primary Source Thorstein Veblen, Conspicuous Consumption, 1902]
  1. The "Zones" of Civilization
    1. [Image Heavy industry: AEG complex, Berlin]
    2. [Image Outer zone: Summer harvest in Russia]

LXXII. Basic Demography: The Increase of the Europeans

  1. European and World Population Growth since 1650
    1. [Secondary Discussion British India]
    2. [Map Rubber regions in Dutch Java]
    3. [Primary Source Vaccination against smallpox]
    4. [Image Death's dispensary, 1866]
    5. [Image Thomas Crapper's toilet]
    6. [Image Sewers of Paris, 1852]
  1. Stabilization of European Population
    1. [Secondary Discussion Compulsory schooling: Board Schools]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Birth control]
  1. Growth of Cities and Urban Life
    1. [Image London, 1888]
    2. [Image Berlin, late 19th century]
    3. [Image Claude Monet: Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris]
    4. [Secondary Discussion/Image Brief History of London Underground]
    5. [Image Liverpool railway lines]
    6. [Image AEG factory, Berlin]
    7. [Image English Midlands: Sheffield, 1854]
    8. [Image Krupp works, Essen, Ruhr]
    9. [Image City life: Ford Madox Brown, Work, 1865]
    10. [Image Mary Cassatt, Reading Le Figaro, 1878]
    11. [Image Cezanne's father reading a newspaper]
    12. [Secondary Discussion Manchester Guardian newspaper]
  1. Migration from Europe, 1850-1940
    1. [Map Global migration]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Causes of Atlantic Migration]
    3. [Image Bar Chart: US Immigration 1820-1970]
    4. [Primary Source Immigration Diary of Michael Friedrich Radke, 1848]
    5. [Image Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England, 1855]
    6. [Image S.S. Great Britain, launched 1843]
    7. [Primary Source Line of American Packets between New York & Liverpool]
    8. [Image European migrants to Argentina, 1892]
    9. [Image The Embarkation, Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850]

LXXIII. The World Economy of the Nineteenth Century

  1. The "New Industrial Revolution"
    1. [Image Electrical turbines]
    2. [Image Poster, General Elektricitaets society Berlin, 1888]
    3. [Image French Dion-Bouton auto, 1885]
    4. [Image Gastambide-Mengin airplane]
    5. [Image First Cross Channel Flight, 1909]
    6. [Image Submarine]
    7. [Image Oil wells]
    8. [Primary Source Harold Baron, The Chemical Industry on the Continent]
    9. [Image Industrial research laboratory]
    10. [Primary Source Francis Fox, How the Swiss Built the Greatest Tunnel in the World, 1905]
    11. [Image Simplon tunnel]
    12. [Image Suez Canal]
    13. [Primary Source Suez Canal]
    14. [Image Suez Canal]
    15. [Image Thomas Edison and phonograph]
    16. [Image Filming a Moving picture]
    17. [Image "Son of the Sheik"]
    18. [Image Radio]
    19. [Primary Source Anesthetics]
    20. [Primary Source The X-ray Century]
    21. [Image X-ray unit]
    22. [Image Eiffel Tower]
    23. [Secondary Discussion Aluminum]
    24. [Image Automobile assembly line]
    25. [Primary Source Frederick W. Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management, 1911]
  1. Free Trade and the European "Balance of Payments"
    1. [Image Port of London]
  1. The Export of European Capital
    1. [Image Railroad station, Bombay, 1866]
  1. An International Money System: The Gold Standard
    1. [Primary Source Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market]
  1. A World Market: Unity, Competition-and Insecurity
  1. Changes in Organization: Big Business
    1. [Primary Source H. D. Lloyd, "The Story of a Great Monopoly," Atlantic Monthly, 1881]
    2. [Image Woolworth building, 1913]
    3. [Image Alfred Krupp]
    4. [Image Frederick Krupp AG at Essen,1906]
    5. [Image Andrew Carnegie]
    6. [Image J.P. Morgan]

LXXIV. The Advance of Democracy: Third French Republic, United Kingdom, German Empire

  1. France: The Establishment of the Third Republic
    1. [Secondary Discussion Timeline of Paris Commune]
    2. [Primary Source Frederich Engels on the Paris Commune]
    3. [Image Versailles and Paris]
    4. [Image Execution of Communards]
    5. [Image Chamber of Deputies]
    6. [Image Premier Jules Ferry]
  1. Troubles of the Third French Republic
    1. [Image French school, 1881]
    2. [Image George Boulanger]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Dreyfus Affair]
    4. [Secondary Discussion/Images] Dreyfus Affair]
    5. [Primary] Zola, I Accuse]
  1. The Strength and Weakness of the Republic
    1. [Image Paris Exhibition, 1889]
    2. [Image French patriotism: Claude Monet, Rue Montargueil with Flags, 1878]
    3. [Image Robert Koehler, The Strike, 1886]
  1. The British Constitutional Monarchy
    1. [Image Queen Victoria]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Liberal]
    3. [Secondary Discussion Conservative]
    4. [Image William E. Gladstone]
    5. [Image Benjamin Disraeli]
    6. [Image Second Reform Bill: "A Leap in the Dark"]
    7. [Image Farm laborers voting for the first time, 1884]
    8. [Image British House of Commons, late 19th century]
    9. [Image Ragged School, 1840s]
    10. [Secondary Discussion 1870 Education Act]
    11. [Secondary Discussion Trade Union Act, 1871]
    12. [Image Voting by secret ballot]
    13. [Secondary Discussion London's Sewers]
  1. British Political Changes after 1900
    1. [Secondary Discussion Labour party]
    2. [Image Herbert Asquith]
    3. [Image David Lloyd George]
    4. [Secondary Discussion Parliament Act of 1911]
    5. [Image Coal strike of 1912]
  1. The Irish Question
    1. [Image Ireland mid c19]
    2. [Image Irish peasants]
    3. [Image Ulstermen arming and drilling]
  1. Bismarck and the German Empire, 1871-1890
    1. [Image Otto van Bismarck]
    2. [Primary Source George Makepeace Towle, Bismarck in the Reichstag and at Home, 1880]
    3. [Secondary Discussion/Images] National Liberals]
    4. [Secondary Discussion Syllabus of Errors]
    5. [Secondary Discussion Papal infallibility]
    6. [Secondary Discussion/Images] Center party]
    7. [Secondary Discussion Kulturkampf]
    8. [Primary Source German Banking, 1910]
    9. [Primary Source German Social Democracy: The Erfurt Program, 1891]
    10. [Primary Source Extracts from Bismarck's social welfare legislation]
    11. [Image German Social Welfare System]
  1. The German Empire after 1890--William II
    1. [Image William II opening Reichstag, 1888]
    2. [Primary Source Bismarck's Fall from Power, 1890]
    3. [Image Dropping the Pilot]
  1. Developments Elsewhere; General Observations
    1. [Image Gabriele d'Annunzio]
    2. [Secondary Discussion Gabriele d'Annunzio]
    3. [Secondary Discussion/Image Filippo Marinetti]
    4. [Primary Source Filippo Marinetti, The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, 1909]
    5. [Image Emperor-King Francis Joseph]








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