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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

Problems for Analysis

I. The Economics of Growth


1		1. Explain the comparatively spectacular industrial expansion of Germany and the relative loss of British industrial supremacy between 1870 and 1914. 2. How do you explain the sharp rise in European population between 1870 and 1914 despite falling birthrates in Western European countries and massive migration of people overseas?

II. The Knowledge of Nature and Society


2		1. How did scientific discoveries and development of theories of progress relate to each other?

III. Europe and the World


3		1. In what ways was European presence around the globe expanding? How do you explain this?

IV. Modern Imperialism


4		1. Discuss alternative explanations for late nineteenth-century imperialism. Develop what you feel is the best explanation. 2. Was colonial conquest part of a conscious, long-range scheme by various European governments, or was it simply something they fell into by accident or through the force of events? Explain.

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