The Earth and Its Peoples 3 rd edition Chapter 28 The New Imperialism, 1869-1914 Cover Slide...

The Earth and Its Peoples

3rd edition

Chapter 28

The New Imperialism,

1869-1914

Cover Slide

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A Steamboat for the Congo River, 1895Soon after the Congo Basin was occupied by Europeans in the late nineteenth century, the new colonial rulers realized they needed to improve transportation. Since access from the sea was blocked by rapids on the lower Congo River, steamboats had to be brought in sections, hauled from the coast by thousands of Congolese over very difficult terrain. This picture from The Congo, Vol. 2, by the American journalist Henry Morton Stanley, 1885, shows the pieces arriving at Stanley Pool, ready to be reassembled. (From H.M. Stanley, The Congo, vol. 2, London, 1885)

A Steamboat for the Congo River, 1895


Diamond mining, S. Africa, 1889The discovery of diamonds in the Transvaal, in southern Africa, in 1867, attracted prospectors to the area around Kimberley. The first wave of prospectors consisted of individual "diggers," including a few Africans. By the late 1870s, surface deposits had been exhausted and further mining required complex and costly machinery. After 1889, one company, De Beers Consolidated, owned all the diamond mines. The photograph shows the entrance to a mineshaft and mine workers surrounded by heavy equipment. (Royal Commonwealth Society. By permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library)

Diamond mining, S. Africa, 1889


"No Home Rule" poster, 1914Posters like this one--No Home Rule--helped to foment pro-British, anti-Catholic sentiment in the northern Irish counties of Ulster before World War I. The rifle raised defiantly and the accompanying rhyme are a thinly veiled threat of armed rebellion and civil war. (National Museums of Northern Ireland)

"No Home Rule" poster, 1914


Opening of Suez Canal, 1869This colored engraving depicts the opening of the Suez Canal, which the French had built across Egyptian territory in 1869, linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. It significantly shortened the voyage by ship from Europe to East Asia. The Suez Canal exemplified the speeding up of transportation and communication in the second half of the nineteenth century. (akg-images)

Opening of Suez Canal, 1869


Victorious Ethiopians, 1896Among the states of Africa in the late nineteenth century, Ethiopia alone was able to defend itself against European imperialism. In the 1880s, hemmed in by Italian advances to its east and north and by British advances to its south and west, Ethiopia purchased modern weapons and trained its army to use them. Thus prepared, the Ethiopians defeated an Italian invasion at Adowa in 1896. These Ethiopian army officers wore their most elaborate finery to pose for a photograph after their victory. (National Archives)

Victorious Ethiopians, 1896


Map: Africa in 1878 and 1914

Africa in 1878 and 1914In 1878 the European colonial presence was limited to a few coastal enclaves, plus portions of Algeria and South Africa. By 1914, Europeans had taken over all of Africa except Ethiopia and Liberia. (Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.)


Map: Asia in 1914

Asia in 1914India remained under British rule, while China precariously preserved its political independence. The Dutch empire in modern-day Indonesia was old, but French control of Indochina was a product of the new imperialism. (Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.)


Map: The Great Powers and Their Colonial Possessions in 1913

The Great Powers and Their Colonial Possessions in 1913By 1913, a small handful of countries claimed sovereignty over more than half the land area of the earth. Global power was closely connected with industries and a merchant marine, rather than with a large territory. This explains why Great Britain, the smallest of the great powers, possessed the largest empire. (Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.)


Map: The Partition of Africa

The Partition of AfricaEuropean nations carved up Africa after 1878 and built vast political empires. Britain and France took the most territory. What African states remained independent? (Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin Company. All Rights Reserved.)


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