The New ImperialismHistory 104 / March 8, 2013
Britain in Asia: the Opium War (1839-42)
Opium smokers in China
Britain in Asia: suppressing the Sepoy Mutiny (1857-58)
Britain in Asia: Victoria proclaimed Empress of India, 1877
British & French financiers build the Suez Canal (1859-1869)
Leopold IIKing of Belgium,
1865-1909
The “Congo Free State”:slave-plantation conditions
Lüderitz: a German colony in Southwest Africa (founded 1883)
The Berlin Conference (1884-85): Europeans divide up Africa
Africa in 1886
Note: German colonies are dark purple (not green as indicated in the key)
French conquests in Indochina (Vietnam), 1883-84
From the “open door”to spheres of influence
in China(late 1800s)
China’s Boxer Rebellion (1898-1900): revenge against foreigners
The “Righteous and Harmonious Fists” attack a Russian steamship
Expeditionary forcessent against the Boxers:
BritainGermany
RussiaFranceItaly
Austria-Hungarythe United States
Japan
Commodore Perry forces Japan to open up
to trade(1853)
The Meiji Restoration(1868)
The “Great Game”in Afghanistan
(Britain vs. Russia)
Colonizing Manchuria (Russia vs. Japan)
The Russo-Japanese War(1904-5)
Complications in Africa: Ethiopians beat Italy at Adowa (1896)
Complications in Africa: the Franco-British
showdown at Fashoda (1898)
British colonies = greenFrench colonies = pink
The Boer War (1899-1902): Britain’s Cape Colony vs. the Dutch farmers (Boer) of the interior
Paul Kruger (1825-1904)
German troops mobilize to suppressthe Herero Uprising in South West Africa (1904-7)