Belle poque La Belle Epoque 1896 1914 Economic
Belle Époque
La Belle Epoque (1896 -1914) • Economic Recovery and optimism – North America and Western Europe • Science and society – Modernism and its tensions • Workers, • Women – Middle East, China, Russia • Iran, Ottoman Empire, Egypt • China, Russian Revolution – Constitutional Monarchies (Iran 1906, Ottoman Empire 1908, ) – Anti-foreign and anti-colonial movements (Egypt 1882, China 1900, Social revolutions (Russia 1905, 1917)
St. Petersburg, Russia Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
La Belle Epoque (1896 -1914) • Economic Recovery and optimism – North America and Western Europe • Science and society – Modernism and its tensions • Workers, • Women – Middle East, China, Russia • Iran, Ottoman Empire, Egypt • China, Russian Revolution – Constitutional Monarchies (Iran 1906, Ottoman Empire 1908, ) – Anti-foreign and anti-colonial movements (Egypt 1882, China 1900, Social revolutions (Russia 1905, 1917)
Japan Luzon, Philippines India
La Belle Epoque (1896 -1914) • Economic Recovery and optimism – North America and Western Europe • Science and society – Modernism and its tensions • Workers, • Women – Middle East, China, Russia • Iran, Ottoman Empire, Egypt • China, Russian Revolution – Constitutional Monarchies (Iran 1906, Ottoman Empire 1908, ) – Anti-foreign and anti-colonial movements (Egypt 1882, 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
Jerusalem, 1899
Enver Pasha
Going to war Istanbul, 1911 Belgrade 1911
Ottoman retreat
Istanbul, 1920
• Egypt – 1882 Crisis – Nationalist uprising (Urabi Pasha) – British occupation
Hiram Maxim with his invention
Spion Kop, South Africa, 1900
• China – Anti foreign sentiment – Boxer rebellion (1900) – Treaty – Empire weakened and overthrown
• Russia – Industrialization – War with Japan (1904 -05) – 1905 Revolution – War and Revolution
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