 |  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
Europe's World Supremacy, 1871-1914
Learning ObjectivesChapter 16 teaches students about:
| The forty years of Europe's world supremacy preceding World War I. |
| | | | The territorial and political domination entailed by the new imperialism |
| | | | The economic and non-economic motives of imperialism, as well as the socialist critiques of those motives. |
| | | | The policies and concerns that justified and motivated U.S. imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in the Pacific islands. |
| | | | The decline of the Ottoman empire and European concerns over both its decline and potential reform. |
| | | | The division of Africa among the European countries, and the failure of international regulation in preventing conflicts among competing European powers. |
| | | | European colonial rule in Asia, nationalist challenges to that rule, and finally, tensions between British and Russian interests in the region. |
| | | | The imposition of the treaty system in China and Chinese resistance to imperialism from both the west and Japan. |
| | | | Japan's expansionist ambitions, which brought it into direct conflict with Russia. |
| | | | The concerns raised by the Russians' defeat by the Japanese, and the implications of that experience for both colonizers and colonized peoples. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education