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Cover Slide
Maps and Images for
McKay 8e
A History of Western
Society
Chapter 26
The West and the World
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Empire and advertising
Empire and advertising
Empire had become so much a part of European life in the late nineteenth century
that advertisements for biscuits, such as this one for Huntley & Palmers
(Manufacturers to the Queen), included colonial scenes. Such media made colonial
domination seem normal, part of the natural order of things. (The Robert Opie
Collection)
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Jewish market, New York
Jewish market, New York
This hand-colored photograph shows a Jewish market in New York City in 1900. The
center of economic and social life in the Lower East Side was the market. Jewish
immigrants could usually find work with Jewish employers, and New York's Jewish
population soared from 73,000 in 1880 to 1.1 million in 1910. (The Granger
Collection, New York)
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Leopold's treatment of Africans
Leopold's treatment of Africans
This 1908 English cartoon, "Leopold,
King of the Congo, in his native dress,"
focuses on the barbaric practice of
cutting off the hands and feet of Africans
who refused to gather as much rubber as
Leopold's company demanded. In 1908
an international human rights campaign
forced the Belgian king to cede his
personal fief to the Belgian state.
(Archives of Arnoldo Mondadori
Editore, Milan)
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Opening of Suez Canal
Opening of Suez Canal
This colored engraving depicts the opening of the Suez Canal, which the French had
built across Egyptian territory in 1869, linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and
the Indian Ocean. It significantly shortened the voyage by ship from Europe to East
Asia. The Suez Canal exemplified the speeding up of transportation and
communication in the second half of the nineteenth century. (akg-images)
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Petersen, Danish emigrants departing
Petersen, Danish emigrants departing
In 1890 Danish artist Edward Petersen painted Danish emigrants readying to leave
their homeland. Between 1860 and 1914, 300,000 people emigrated from the small
country of Denmark, most of them to the United States. (Courtesy of the Aarhus
Museum. Reproduced with permission of Thomas, Paul, and Ole Hein Petersen,
Aarhus.)
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Railroads and immigration, United
States
Railroads and immigration, United States
The opening of the western region of the United States attracted settlers from the east
coast and from Europe. These migrants are waiting for a train to take them to the
Black Hills of Dakota during one of the gold rushes of the late nineteenth century.
(Library of Congress)
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Vaccinating migrants bound for Hawaii
Vaccinating migrants bound for
Hawaii
First Chinese, then Japanese, and
finally Koreans and Filipinos went
in large numbers across the Pacific
to labor in Hawaii on Americanowned sugar plantations in the late
nineteenth century. The native
Hawaiians had been decimated by
disease, preparing the way for the
annexation of Hawaii by the United
States in 1898. In this photo,
migrants bound for Hawaii in 1904
are being vaccinated onboard ship.
(Corbis)
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European Migrations, 1820-1910
European Migrations, 1820-1910
Throughout the nineteenth century, millions of Europeans left home for overseas;
most headed for the United States.(Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin. All rights
reserved.)
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Map: Africa in 1914
Africa in 1914
European powers in the late nineteenth century conquered most of Africa. Only Liberia and Ethiopia were left unoccupied at
the start of the war. (Copyright (c) Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.)
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Map: Asia in 1914
Asia in 1914
China, Siam (Thailand), and a portion of Persia were the only parts of Asia still independent after the Great
Powers, including the United States and Japan, subjugated the continent to alien rule. (Copyright (c) Houghton
Mifflin. All rights reserved.)
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