Belle poque La Belle Epoque 1896 1914 Economic
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, Russia Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
Industrial Workers of the World
Japan Luzon, Philippines 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
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