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Empire Challenged | Modern Empires and Imperialism
By 1914 it was quite clear that many non-European peoples, including the colonies of exploitation, were beginning to reject claims of white supremacy. The concept of nationalism, new outside of Europe and the Americas, had continued to spread. In the early twentieth century it was most evident in Japan and, to some extent, China, Egypt, and India.
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Leave a commentThe Japanese Empire | Modern Empires and Imperialism
One more empire was being formed during the decades before World War I, the only modern empire to be created by a non-European people. Even during their long, self-imposed isolation the Japanese had maintained an interest in Western developments.
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Leave a commentThe United States | Modern Empires and Imperialism
While the industrial powers of Europe were expanding overseas, the United States acquired by purchase and conquest the remainder of its Manifest Destiny—a dominion from sea to sea that was "to bring the blessings of liberty" to the entire continent. The United States believed it had a moral obligation to expand in order to extend the area of freedom against monarchical or dictatorial governments.
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Leave a commentOther Continental Powers | Modern Empires and Imperialism
Italy got very little out of the partition of Africa. Tunis, which Italy coveted, went instead to France. Italy's major effort centered on the lands at the southern end of the Red Sea, but after the defeat by the Abyssinians in 1896, Italy had to be content with a few thousand square miles, most of it desert, in Eritrea and Somaliland.
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Leave a commentThe French Empire | Modern Empires and Imperialism
During the nineteenth century France acquired a colonial empire second in area only to that of the British. France, despite frequent revolutionary changes in government, maintained an imperialist policy that added some 50 million people and close to 3.5 million square miles to the lands under the French flag. This empire was concentrated in North, West, and Equatorial Africa, and in Indochina.
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Leave a commentOther Empires | Modern Empires and Imperialism
Most industrial nations competed with the British for imperial riches, responsibilities, and "glory."
France remained Britain's primary competitor, though Germany, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, the Netherlands, the United States, and Denmark had overseas empires or colonies by the end of the century.
Japan, Russia, even remnants of the Spanish empire, remained players in "the great game."
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Leave a commentIndia, the "Crown Jewel of Empire," 1815-1915 | Modern Empires and Imperialism
India was the richest of Britain's overseas possessions, the center and symbol of empire, as the imaginative Disraeli realized when in 1876 he had Queen Victoria proclaimed empress of India.
It was over India that the British most often debated the merits of direct intervention versus indirect control, massive social reform imposed from without versus creation of a collaborating elite that would carry out the reforms from within, and whether nature (that is, race) or nurture (that is, environment) most determined a people's future.
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Leave a commentEgypt and Africa South of the Sahara, 1859-1914 | Modern Empires and Imperialism
In the late nineteenth century French prospects in Egypt seemed particularly bright.
Between 1859 and 1869 the private French company headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps built the Suez Canal, which united the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and shortened the sea trip from Europe to India and the Far East by thousands of miles. The British had opposed the building of this canal under French patronage; but now that it was finished, the canal came to be considered an essential part of the lifeline of the British Empire.
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Leave a commentSouth Africa, 1815-1910 | Modern Empires and Imperialism
The legacy of empire was particularly complex in South Africa, where there were two, not one, white settlement groups. Britain acquired the Cape Colony from the Netherlands in 1815. Because the Cape was strategically important and the climate seemed suited to European settlement, Britishers arrived and soon began to compete for land with the older European colonists, the Boers (Dutch for "farmer").
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