The Late 19th Century and WWI
Imperialism, the decline of old empires, and the outbreak of the First World War.
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The rise of the labor movement and socialist thought in industrializing Europe.
The slow collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Qing dynasty in China.
Britain at the height of its empire and industrial and cultural power.
The causes, outbreak, and course of the first global industrial war.
The collapse of the tsarist regime and the Bolshevik seizure of power.
The postwar settlements that redrew the map of Europe after World War I.
19th-century nationalist movements that forged two new European powers.
European colonial expansion across Asia and the partition of Africa.
Japan's rapid transformation from an isolated feudal shogunate into a modern industrial and imperial power, from the arrival of Perry's "black ships" to victory over Qing China.