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Zwicker, Lisa Fetheringill. « Contradictory Fin-de Siècle Reform : German Masculinity, the Academic Honor Code, and the Movement against the Pistol Duel in Universities, 1890–1914 ». History of Education Quarterly 54, n^o 1 (février 2014) : 19–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hoeq.12045.

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The pistol remains the weapon of cripples, the senile, and those infected with a communicable disease. The murder instrument of the highwayman, the dastardly, insidious pistol, is the preferred weapon of the officer.—Hugo Böttger, Editor of theBurschenschaftliche BlätterEven though fraternity men glorified their duels with swords, a series of frivolous pistol duels with deadly ends led students to organize a movement against pistol duels that swept German universities in 1902 and 1903. Students argued that pistol duels violated the rules of reason, morality, and religion—and were thus also purportedly un-German. Male students organized assemblies, made passionate speeches, and passed resolutions in opposition to the pistol duel. They then sent these resolutions to the War Ministers in Prussia, Bavaria, and Saxony. Burschenschaft fraternity men built on their long tradition of liberal political activism and convened assemblies in Berlin, Bonn, Breslau, Freiburg, Giessen, Greifswald, Halle, Kiel, Königsberg, Leipzig, Marburg, Munich, Rostock, and Tübingen and passed resolutions inspired by the movement. Some of these assemblies drew large numbers of students, for example, 600 students in attendance in Leipzig, 1,500 in Munich, and 1,500 in Freiburg. In Berlin, leaders of 67 organizations representing 2,400 members signed petitions against the pistol duel. Other universities not included were majority Catholic institutions, such as Münster or Würzburg, where the opposition to all forms of the duel was even stronger as a result of the Catholic Church's prohibition against dueling. Reaching universities throughout Germany, this movement united students from across the political spectrum.

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OTTE, T. G. « DÉTENTE 1914 : SIR WILLIAM TYRRELL'S SECRET MISSION TO GERMANY ». Historical Journal 56, n^o 1 (1 février 2013) : 175–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x1200057x.

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ABSTRACTBased on hitherto unused archival material, this article reconstructs the genesis of a clandestine mission to Germany by Sir Edward Grey's private secretary, Sir William Tyrrell, planned for the summer of 1914. The mission remained abortive, but it offers fresh insights into a growing sense of détente in Great Power relations on the eve of the First World War. Although the episode involved key officials in London and Berlin, the article emphasizes that, pace many recent scholars of the period, the Anglo-German antagonism was not the central concern of British policy-makers. Rather, relations between the two countries were a function of Anglo-Russian relations, and the revival of Russian power after 1912 provides the proper context to the attempts by British and German officials to place relations between their countries on a friendlier footing. The article thus also calls into question criticisms of the British foreign secretary as irrevocably ententiste, and provides an antidote to assumptions of the First World War as somehow inevitable.

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RYAN, MARYNEL. « Different paths to the public : European women, educational opportunity, and expertise, 1890–1930 ». Continuity and Change 19, n^o 3 (décembre 2004) : 367–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0268416004005193.

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This article describes a comparison of two groups of women, one German and one French, who were able to use the expanding educational opportunities for women during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to forge a new path to public influence. The comparison highlights the different socio-political and institutional contexts of Imperial Germany and Third Republic France, in order to explain the very different career patterns of women with similar research interests: national economists who trained in Berlin and lawyers who trained in Paris. Although the greater emphasis is on the German case, I explore the possibilities for (and limitations to) women's claims to public influence in both contexts.

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Matveeva, Anna. « Embassy of the Russian Empire in Berlin on the Socialist Movement in Germany in 1890–1898 ». Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, n^o 5 (2021) : 179. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640015152-5.

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The study focuses on assessing the representativeness and relevance of diplomatic documents for the study of key aspects of German domestic politics. Three issues are central to the analysis of the documents from the Archive of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire: the completeness of the indicated sources for understanding the factors of the German Empire’s inner policy; the assessment of the subjectivity of the author of diplomatic dispatches, i.e. how much the ambassador's personality determined the content of the dispatches that he sent to the ministry; the relevance of highlighting key issues of internal life in Germany from the point of view of Russian diplomats. Among constantly present in the messages, the most important was the problem of the socialist movement and the Social-Democratic Party’s activities. The socialists were mentioned for significant reasons: the repeal of the Law against the Socialists, the Berlin Conference on the Labor Protection (1890); elections to the Reichstag (1893, 1898); the Reichstag votes on issues important for Russia. The measures of counteraction to the socialists, discussed by the emperor and the government, also aroused interest. The study of archival documents (1890–1898) allows the author to draw the following conclusions. The dispatches adequately reflect the main trends in the socialist movement and the tactics of the SPD, therefore they can be used to study many internal problems faced by Germany in the course of its political evolution. The development of the social-democratic movement was rightly interpreted by Russian diplomats as one of the fundamental reasons for the internal instability of the German state during the reign of Wilhelm II. At the same time, the conclusion drawn by the diplomats can be primarily explained by the Russian imperial regime and its substantial characteristics, rather than the political realities within Germany itself. They considered parliamentarism, limiting the monarch actions (the state interests), to be the main reason for the high popularity and the broadest electoral support of the SPD. The key factor preventing the monarch from defeating the “coup parties” was defined as the activities of liberal political parties, which demanded the unconditional observance of the freedoms prescribed in the Сonstitution of 1871, as well as the prevention of the introduction of Exceptional Laws and other measures of an extraordinary nature.

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Stone, James. « Bismarck and the Great Game : Germany and Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Central Asia, 1871–1890 ». Central European History 48, n^o 2 (juin 2015) : 151–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008938915000321.

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AbstractOtto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of a unified Germany, was an active participant in the Anglo-Russian rivalry for control of Central Asia. Even though Germany had no direct interests there and was never involved on the ground during the two decades of his chancellorship, Bismarck invested considerable resources in working to shape the course of events in that part of the world, stoking the flames of conflict whenever it suited the dictates ofRealpolitik. Over a twenty-year period, he actively pursued a consistent strategy that focused on tying down Russian troops in the remote Asian steppes, i.e., as far away from Central Europe as possible. At the same time, he manipulated Anglo-Russian rivalry in Asia to achieve various foreign policy goals that would further German interests. This article explores in detail all of these objectives, as well as their interrelationship. In particular, it unravels the perplexing mystery of how Bismarck was able to influence the politics of Central Asia from his distant headquarters in Berlin.

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Sweeney, D. « Urbanization and Crime : Germany 1871-1914 ; Strassenpolitik. Zur Sozialgeschichte der offentlichen Ordnung in Berlin 1900 bis 1914 ». German History 15, n^o 2 (1 avril 1997) : 287–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gh/15.2.287.

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Sun, Yawen. « Wilhelm von Bode's Way of Art Appraisal ». Arts Studies and Criticism 3, n^o 5 (16 novembre 2022) : 328. http://dx.doi.org/10.32629/asc.v3i5.1065.

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Wilhelm von Bode, 1845-1929, whose full name is Arnold Wilhelm von Bode, added the word "Feng" to his family name after being granted the title of nobility in 1914. He was a famous German art historian, museum director and founder of museology in the 19th century, and served as the general curator of the Berlin Museum from 1905 to 1920. In Bode's more than half a century long art museum work and art appraisal activities, he has identified countless works of art, and it is impossible to accurately count how many works of art he has evaluated and collected for the Berlin Art Museum and other art museums in Germany. His achievements in art appraisal have almost become a legend. These events recorded in the art history present Bode's specific details and ideas in the work of art appraisal, and more clearly delineate the intricate relationship between art appraisal and other social factors in the country's cultural construction.

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Matveeva, Anna. « Wilhelm II and the resignation of Otto von Bismarck ». Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, n^o 5 (2022) : 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s013038640020983-9.

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The article focuses on the turning point in the history of the German Empire in 1871–1918, associated with the circumstances of the resignation of the first Imperial Chancellor and Minister-President of Prussia Otto von Bismarck in March 1890 and the transition to the so-called Wilhelmian period in the history of the country. The subject has been well studied in German historiography, yet it is still a matter for discussion among historians. Drawing on studies already undertaken, the author supplements them with information from the correspondence between the Russian Embassy in Berlin and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire in January–April 1890, which is largely unknown to the general public. The author focuses on the character and personality of Emperor Wilhelm II, the principal stages in his biography up to 1890 which influenced the emergence and course of the resignation crisis; the political differences between the Emperor and the Chancellor which became the catalyst for their break-up; the consequences of Bismarck's resignation and the impact of these events on the subsequent development of Germany. As a result of this research, the author concludes that, firstly, the main reason was psychology, the psychological disposition of the monarch. By firing the chancellor, he wanted to get a sense of freedom. A man who had been emotionally very dependent on his 'mentors' his whole life was trying to break free from the tutelage of the chief of them, Bismarck. Secondly, the German Empire was in no way inferior to the British Empire, whose reigning house he had a whole gamut of love-hate feelings towards. In such a situation, Bismarck, who had resisted state colonial policy and domestic transformation in every way, was not at all suited to be the main pillar of the new monarch, who had such far-reaching, albeit very vague, plans. His notion of the ability to single-handedly determine the entire policy of a country such as Germany at the end of the nineteenth century was inherently doomed to failure. Removing a constraining and guiding factor such as Bismarck from the system made it even more unstable. But there was no other way out of the conflict, the Bismarcks could not in any circumstances replace the Hohenzollerns.

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Grams, Grant W. « Louis Hamilton : A British Scholar in Nazi Germany ». Fascism 5, n^o 2 (27 octobre 2016) : 177–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00502005.

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Louis Hamilton (1879–1948) was a British national that lectured at various institutions of higher learning in Berlin from 1904–1914, and 1919–1938. During the Third Reich (1933–1945) Hamilton was accused of being half-Jewish and his continued presence at institutions of higher learning was considered undesirable. Hamilton like other foreign born academics was coerced to leave Germany because the Nazi educational system viewed them as being politically unreliable. Hamilton’s experiences are an illustration of what foreign academics suffered during the Third Reich. The purpose of this article is to shed new light on the fate of foreign academics in Nazi Germany. Although the fate of Jewish professors and students has been researched non-Jewish and non-Aryan instructors has been a neglected topic within the history of Nazism.

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Lambert, A. « Naval Intelligence from Germany : The Reports of the British Naval Attaches in Berlin, 1906-1914 ». English Historical Review CXXV, n^o 513 (24 mars 2010) : 479–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep329.

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Thèses sur le sujet "Berlin (Germany) – History – 1890-1914"

Sutton, Cavender. « "We Germans Fear God, and Nothing Else in the World!" Military Policy in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914 ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3571.

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Throughout the Second Reich’s short life, military affairs were synonymous with those of the state. Indeed, it was the zeal and blood of Prussian soldiers that allowed the creation of a unified German empire. After solidifying itself as a major power, things grew more complicated as the Reich found itself increasingly surrounded by hostile rivals. To the west, French humiliation over their catastrophic defeat in 1870-71 continued to fester while, in the east, Russian sympathies for the new empire waned. The finalization of a Franco-Russian alliance in 1894 meant Germany faced formidable adversaries along her eastern and western borders. That unsettling realization dictated the empire’s military policy until its downfall in 1918. Drawing from the writings and speeches of Wilhelmine Germany’s military and political leaders, this work seeks to examine and analyze the Second Reich’s military policies and decision-making processes over the three decades preceding the First World War.

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Ainsworth, James Paul. « Naval strategic thought in Britain and Germany, 1890-1914 : intellectuals, journals and the creation of strategic culture ». Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252279.

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Fleck, Gatius Xavier. « Alemanya vista des de la política i cultura catalanes entre 1890 i 1914 ». Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673575.

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A partir dels grans canvis i conflictes polítics, socials i culturals que se van produir a la Catalunya entre els anys 1890 i 1914, un sector important dels intel·lectuals (els quals a Catalunya cada cop participaven més en las estructures de poder) buscà fora de les fronteres del Regne d’Espanya exemples per a la modernització institucional i cultural. Un dels referents més destacats d’aquests intel·lectuals fou l’Imperi Alemany. Aquesta investigació es focalitza en tres grans temes: primer de tot, el Segon Reich Alemany com a referent institucional; segon, l’anàlisi dels qui foren els grans difusors de la cultura germànica a Catalunya; i tercer, la importància que tingueren els que viatjaran a l’Imperi Alemany (des dels que feren llargs viatges per motius laborals fins els pensionats per les diferents institucions polítiques, com la Diputació Provincial de Barcelona fins a la Junta de Ampliación de Estudios del Govern Espanyol, per estudiar a diferents organitzacions acadèmiques de l’Alemanya Guillermina.
Catalonia took place a great political, social and cultural changes and conflicts between 1890 to 1914. An important sector of the Catalan intellectuals, who participated gradually in the power structures, looked outside the borders of the Kingdom of Spain for examples of institutional and cultural modernization. One of the most prominent references of these intellectuals was the German Empire. This work focuses on three major issues: first, the Second German Reich as an institutional reference; second, the analysis of who were the most important diffusers of German culture in Catalonia; and third, the importance of those who travelled to the German Empire (from work reasons to pensioners by different Catalan and Spanish institutions to study in different academic organizations in the Deutsches Kaiserreich).

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Jonke, Philipp. « La mode en série : essor de la confection et de la grande distribution vestimentaires. Le système de la mode à Berlin des années 1880 à 1914 ». Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSEN008.

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À la fin du XIXe siècle, la production sérielle de vêtements selon des tailles standardisées (confection) et la grande distribution connaissent un essor considérable à Berlin, capitale du nouvel Empire allemand fondé en 1871. En recourant à la notion de « système de la mode », le présent travail explore les mutations d’un système caractérisé par l’interaction nécessaire de trois acteurs principaux : la production, la distribution et la société. Cette histoire culturelle éclaire un corpus fragmenté, fait des traces héritées d’un secteur principalement juif, démantelé trente ans plus tard. Les études sociales, les journaux de mode, les annuaires de Berlin, les réclames et les rares documents de magasins reflètent une mode en mutation : la confection produit des nouveautés et la distribution attire une clientèle diversifiée. Ce contexte redéfinit la place des couches sociales dans le système de la mode. Enfin, ces changements entraînent une lente évolution des normes sociales et genrées qui s’appliquent désormais à la femme bourgeoise et à celle des couches moyennes
At the end of the nineteenth century, standardised serial production of clothing (Konfektion) and large retailing took off in Berlin, the capital of the new German Empire founded in 1871. Using the concept of fashion as a system, this work explores the changes ina system characterised by necessary interactions between three actors: production, retailand society.This history sheds light on fragmented sources, on the inherited traces of a mainly Jewish sector, dismantled thirty years later. Social study cases, fashion journals, Berlin directories, advertisements and the mere documents left by stores mirror how fashion changes: Konfektion produces novelties and retail attracts a diversified clientele. This context redefines the importance of social hierarchies in the fashion system. Finally, these changes transform slowly social and gender norms imposed not only on bourgeois but also on lower-middle-class women

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MULLER, Philipp. « Ganz Berlin ist hintertreppe : Sensationen des Verbrechens und die Umwälzung der Presselandschaft im wilhelminischen Berlin, 1890-1914 ». Doctoral thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5912.

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Defence date: 3 June 2004
Examining board: Prof. Peter Becker, European University Institute ; Prof. Richard J. Evans, Cambridge University ; Prof. Alf Lüdtke, Technische Universität Erfurt (2nd Supervisor) ; Prof. Regina Schulte, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (1st Supervisor)
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017

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Livres sur le sujet "Berlin (Germany) – History – 1890-1914"

Bonnell, Andrew. The people's stage in Imperial Germany : Social democracy and culture 1890-1914. London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2005.

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1956-, Bilski Emily D., et Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), dir. Berlin metropolis : Jews and the new culture, 1890-1918. Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 1999.

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Die Kunst dem Volke oder dem Proletariat ? : Die Geschichte der Freien Volksbühnenbewegung in Berlin 1890-1914. Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 1989.

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Bendikat, Elfi. Öffentliche Nahverkehrspolitik in Berlin und Paris 1890-1914 : Strukturbedingungen, politische Konzeptionen und Realisierungsprobleme. Berlin, New York : W. de Gruyter, 1999.

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Hoesch, Kristin. Ärztinnen für Frauen : Kliniken in Berlin 1877-1914. Stuttgart : Metzler, 1995.

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Berlin Coquette : Prostitution and the New German Woman, 1890/1933. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2013.

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Jean-Louis, Robert, dir. Capital cities at war : Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-1919. Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Ursprung, Philip. Kritik und Secession : "Das Atelier" : Kunstkritik in Berlin zwischen 1890 und 1897. Basel : Schwabe, 1996.

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Hildegard, Gräf, et Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, dir. Westfalen-Lippe in Dokumentarfilmen 1912-1943 und Wochenschauen 1914-1962 : [aus den Beständen des Bundesarchivs, Filmarchivs Berlin/Koblenz]. Münster : Der Landschaftsverband, 1995.

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Fröhlich, Jürgen. Liebe im Expressionismus : Eine Untersuchung der Lyrik in den Zeitschriften Die Aktion und Der Sturm von 1910-1914. New York : P. Lang, 1990.

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Traynor, John. « Wilhelmine Germany, 1890–1914 ». Dans Mastering Modern German History, 62–77. London : Macmillan Education UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07221-4_4.

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Traynor, John. « Germany and the origins of the First World War, 1890–1914 ». Dans Mastering Modern German History, 78–101. London : Macmillan Education UK, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07221-4_5.

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Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen. « Staging Empire as History and Allegory in Austria and Germany ». Dans Projecting Imperial Power, 256–70. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802471.003.0011.

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Theatrical presentations of the foundational myths of the Austrian and German empires, either as costumed processions and pageants or as specially commissioned plays for the theatre, were staged on anniversaries and important jubilees. In Austria, the most important was Franz Joseph’s Diamond Jubilee in 1908, when a pageant of 12,000 lay participants took place in Vienna, while other elements of the national myth were presented on the stage. Wilhelm II played an active part in promoting the imperial theatre festival in Wiesbaden between 1896 and 1914, for which parts of the Hohenzollern myth were dramatized. In 1897, on Wilhelm I’s hundredth birthday, Ernst von Wildenbruch’s Willehalm was performed in Berlin, a verse drama presenting Wilhelm I in allegorical form as the hero who rescued Germany from the evil French.

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« WILHELMINIAN GERMANY, 1890–1914 ». Dans A History of Modern Germany, 54–88. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315508375-8.

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« Foreign Policy, 1890–1914 ». Dans A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350062207.ch-008.

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« The Germany of William II, 1890–1914 ». Dans A History of Germany, 1800 to the Present. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350062207.ch-007.

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Diaz-Andreu, Margarita. « Colonialism and Monumental Archaeology in South and Southeast Asia ». Dans A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199217175.003.0016.

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In the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, political and economic power was concentrated in just a few countries. Having eclipsed the most mighty early modern empires—those of Spain and Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, The Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries— Britain, France, the Russian, and the Austro-Hungarian Empires became the major European powers. Later, these were joined by the newly formed countries of Germany and Italy, together with the United States of America and Japan. In these countries elites drew their might not only from the industrial revolution but also from the economic exploitation of their ever-increasing colonies. Colonialism, a policy by which a state claims sovereignty over territory and people outside its own boundaries, often to facilitate economic domination over their resources, labour, and markets, was not new. In fact, colonialism was an old phenomenon, in existence for several millennia (Gosden 2004). However, in the nineteenth century capitalism changed the character of colonialism in its search for new markets and cheap labour, and the imperial expansion of the European powers prompted the control and subjugation of increasingly large areas of the world. From 1815 to 1914 the overseas territories held by the European powers expanded from 35 per cent to about 85 per cent of the earth’s surface (Said 1978: 41; 1993: 6). To this enlarged region areas of informal imperialism (see Part II of this book) could be added. However, colonialism and informal colonialism were not only about economic exploitation. The appropriation of the ‘Other’ in the colonies went much further, and included the imposition of an ideological and cultural hegemony throughout each of the empires. The zenith of this process of colonization was reached between the 1860s and the First World War, in the context of an increasingly exultant nationalism. In a process referred to as ‘New Imperialism’, European colonies were established in all the other four continents, mainly in areas not inhabited by populations with political forms cognate to the Western powers. In the case of Africa, its partition would be formally decided at an international meeting—the Berlin Conference of 1884–5.

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