Encyclopedia of the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1914 [Two Volumes]

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Carl Cavanagh Hodge

Book Code: GR3404

ISBN: 0-313-33404-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33404-7

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1016 pages, maps

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/30/2007

List Price: $225.00 (UK Sterling Price: £125.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 7 x 10

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Hodge....edits an international team of more than 60 scholars in an examination of the personages, movements, and treaties banging that drum. The result appears to be the only English-language A-to-Z encyclopedia on the subject....going beyond American and European imperialism, the set includes coverage of the Japanese empire, as well as 30 primary documents....BOTTOM LINE: A fine example of what a historical encyclopedia can be. Highly recommended for academic and larger public libraries.
—Library Journal April 1, 2008

Description: In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed some form of political or economic ascendancy on over 80 percent of the globe. The basic structure of global and European politics in the twentieth century was fashioned in the previous century out of the clash of competing imperial interests and the effects, both beneficial and harmful, of the imperial powers on the societies they dominated. This encyclopedia offers current, detailed information on the major world powers of the nineteenth century and their global empires, as well as on the people, events, and ideas, both European and non-European, that shaped the Age of Imperialism. Besides detailed entries that describe the formation, structure, and influence of the economic and territorial empires built by Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan, the Ottoman Turks, and the United States prior to World War I, the encyclopedia also offers entries on such important figures as:

Joseph Chamberlain

Georges Clemenceau

Mustapha Kemal

Alexander Kerensky

Rudyard Kipling

Hirobumi Ito

Helmuth von Moltke

Ibn Saud
Other entries cover such important events as the following:

Battle of Blood River

Boxer Insurrection

Congress of Berlin

Fashoda Incident

Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12

Jameson Raid
And still other entries cover such countries, treaties, alliances, and movements as:

Egypt

Entente Cordiale

German Confederation

Guinea

Jadidism

India

Treaty of Inkiar Skelessi
Besides over 800 clearly written and highly informative entries, the encyclopedia includes primary documents, a chronology, and extensive introductory essay, a bibliography, a guide to related topics, and a series of useful maps.

LC Card Number: 2007026483

LCC Class: D358

Dewey Class: 909

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