Contributor
Hay, Jeff.
Imprint:San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, c2002.
Description218 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:Ch. 1. AN ERA OF CHALLENGE AND TRANSITION: Thousands race to California in search of gold / Donald Barr Chidsey -- The domination of the bourgeoisie / Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels -- Industry and empire on display: Britain's Crystal Palace exibition -- The failed Taiping rebellion in China / John King Fairbank -- Japan is opened to the West / Richard Storry -- Charles Darwin defends his theory of natural selection / Charles Darwin -- The causes of the American Civil War were complex / Bruce Collins -- European powers invade Mexico / London Morning Post -- Ch. 2. NATIONAL UNITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE : The world celebrates the opening of the Suez Canal / Arnold T. Wilson -- The unification of Italy was a triumph of both nationalism and liberalism / Benedetto Croce -- Japan realizes it needs western ideas / Akira Kriye -- Unified Germany took on Prussian overtones / William L. Shirer -- Germany's rise to power is a mixed blessing / Frederick II -- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone / Ernest V. Heyn -- Thomas Edison had ambitious plans for electric power / Alan I. Marcus, Howard P. Segal -- Ch. 3. EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM REACHES ITS PEAK : The scramble for Africa / Roland Oliver, J.D. Fage -- A Vietnamese official adjusts to French rule / Duong Van Mai Elliot -- Mastery of radio waves / Arthur C. Clarke -- The automobile grows popular / Eugen Weber -- The ballad of East and West / Rudyard Kipling -- Great Britain celebrates queen and empire / Jan Morris -- A European Jew expresses his hopes for a Jewish homeland / Theodor Herzl -- The United States joins the imperialist powers / Scott Nearing, Joseph Freeman -- China's Boxer Rebellion strikes at western imperialists / Diana Preston -- Ch. 4. SIGNS OF UNCERTAINTY AND DANGER AS THE CENTURY TURNS: Dreams are statements of the subconscious mind / Sigmund Freud -- Albert Einstein becomes a scientific celebrity / Banesh Hoffmann, Helen Dukas -- European civilization is a sham / George Bernard Shaw -- The Wright Brothers inaugurate the age of flight / Marvin W. McFarland -- From peep-shows to onscreen theatre: the motion picture / Arthur Knight -- Victory against Russia confirms Japan's great power status / Suisheng Zhao -- An aborted revolution in Russia / Lionel Kochan, Richard Abraham -- Three major challenges to Europe's balance of power / Winston S. Churchill -- The Chinese revolution ends 2000 years of dynastic tradition / Sun Yat-Sen -- Revolutionary upheaval in Mexico / Martin Luis Guzman -- Women seeking the right to vote must remain militant / Emmeline Pankhurst -- The sinking of the Titanic marks the end of an era / Walter Lord.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209) and index.
