"The European Expansion"
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Histoire seconde/ Dominique Borne, Jacques Bouillon, Geneviève Joutard, Dominique Margairaz, Alain Plessis, Marie-Noëlle Thibault, Jacques Marseille (dir.) - Paris: Nathan, 1987, S. 320-321 -
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The chapter is dedicated to Europe’s relationships throughout the world during the 19th century. The author presents aspects of the worldwide demographic, economic and cultural expansions of Europe, which took place simultaneously and which, in his eyes, heralds in and prepares for the colonial expansion, which is covered in the following chapter.
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Based on the question of what the Europeans’ feeling of superiority in the 19th century was based on and to what extent it motivated the European expansion, the author underscores Europe’s unity, the similarities that unite the European powers and that differentiate them from the other countries of the world. These similarities are simultaneously [mehr...]