Belle Époque

La Belle Epoque(1896-1914)

• Economic Recovery and optimism– North America and Western Europe

• Urban industrial society and its tensions– Workers, – Women

– Middle East, China, Russia• Constitutional Monarchies (Iran ,1906; Ottoman

Empire, 1908) • Anti-foreign and anti-colonial movements

(China 1900) • Social revolutions (Russia 1905, 1917)

St. Petersburg, RussiaIstanbul, Ottoman Empire

Industrial Workers of the World

Luzon, Philippines

Japan

India

La Belle Epoque(1896-1914)

• Economic Recovery and optimism– North America and Western Europe

• Modern society and its tensions– Workers, – Women

– Middle East, China, Russia• Constitutional Monarchies (Iran ,1906; Ottoman

Empire, 1908) • Anti-foreign and anti-colonial movements

(China 1900) • Social revolutions (Russia 1905, 1917)

• Iran– 1906 Constitutional revolution

• Ottoman Empire – 1876 Constitution– 1908 Young Turk Revolution– 1911-12, 1912-13 Balkan Wars– World War One

Decline of the Ottoman Empire

Jerusalem, 1899

Going to war

Istanbul, 1911 Belgrade 1911

Ottoman retreat

• China– Anti foreign sentiment– Boxer rebellion (1900)– Treaty– Qing weakened and overthrown (1911)

Righteous and Harmonious Fists (Boxers)

Boxer Rebellion: Allied expedition entering Beijing

• Russia– Industrialization– War with Japan (1904-05)– 1905 Revolution– War and Revolution

Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, (1896) Russian peasants

St. Petersburg Canteen for the poor)

Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05

Tsarist troops ready to open fire, Jan 9, 1905