Covering, to a degree, the timeframe and several themes popularly traversed by Paul Kennedy back in the mid-eighties with The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, John Darwin has put together what is, in my opinion, one of the best Big Picture histories that I have ever had the pleasure to read. ...
Between then and 1900, the political and economic map of the world was redrawn. New imperial powers, including Germany, Italy, the United States and Japan, entered the stage; old ones ballooned in size. Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific were partitioned leaving only patches of local sovereig...
French soldiers at Tientsin (Tianjin) in the Boxer Rebellion After 1880 the frontiers of Greater Europe surged forward as if the final subjection of the non-Western world was only a matter of time. The most obvious sign of this was the rapid partition of those parts of the globe that had escaped ...
