 |  The Western Experience, 8/e Mortimer Chambers,
University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt,
Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb,
Princeton University
Isser Woloch,
Columbia University
Raymond Grew,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
European Power: Wealth, Knowledge, and Imperialism
Chapter Overview1. Economic growth and industrial progress accelerated during the second half of the nineteenth century. The period was also one of great demographic growth, particularly in cities. 2. Science, ideas of progress, and knowledge of the non-European world proliferated during this period. 3. Particularly after the 1860s, European nations--motivated by a combination of economic, cultural, and political considerations--engaged in a vast imperial expansion. |
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