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 Ottoman Empire 1906 Constitutional revolution 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