Snapshots of Modern History Vol. 1
Table of Contents
Snapshots of Modern History Vol. 1 is still being written. We do not yet have an expected release date. This is a working table of contents. More culture corners will be added and the content and order of chapters may change.
Section 1: The Sun Never Sets on the British Empire
Chapter 1: The British Empire
Culture Corner: Charles Darwin
Chapter 2: The British in India
Section 2: Colonial Ups and Downs
Chapter 3: Self Rule in Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 4: Thailand
Section 3: Remaking America
Chapter 5: The Civil War
Chapter 6: Reconstruction
Culture Coner: Mark Twain
Section 4: Latin America
Chapter 7: Latin American Conflicts
Chapter 8: End of Slavery in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Brazil
Section 5: Changes in Asia
Chapter 9: The Meiji Restoration
Culture Corner: Hokusai
Chapter 10: Qing China
Section 6: Unification
Chapter 11: Unification of Italy
Chapter 12: Unification of Germany
Section 7: Colonialism in Africa
Chapter 13: The Scramble for Africa, pt. 1
Chapter 14: The Scramble for Africa, pt. 2
Section 8: The Face of America—Old and New
Chapter 15: Native American Genocide
Chapter 16: Mass Immigration to America
Culture Corner: Statue of Liberty
Section 9: Capitalism on the Rise
Chapter 17: Robber Barons
Chapter 54: The Rise of the Department Store/Consumerism
Culture Corner: Baking Soda
Section 10: Carry a Big Stick
Chapter 19: Yukon Gold Rush and Canada's Westward Expansion
Culture Corner: Polar Exploration
Chapter 20: Spanish American War and Teddy Roosevelt
Section 11: Modernism Has Arrived
Chapter 21: Further Industrialization
Chapter 58: Artistic Movements
Culture Corner: Titanic
Section 12: Tumult Around the World
Chapter 23: Boxer Rebellion and the Chinese Revolution
Chapter 24: The Balkan Wars and Armenian Genocide
Section 13: The War That Started It All
Chapter 25: WWI
Chapter 26: Russian Revolution
Section 14: A World Torn Apart
Chapter 26: WWI
Chapter 27: The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Section 15: National Identities Form
Chapter 29: Irish Revolution
Culture Corner: Yeats and Joyce
Chapter 30: Militarization of Japan
Section 16: A Changing World
Chapter 31: Women's Suffrage
Culture Corner: Penicillin
Chapter 32: The Roaring 20s
Culture Corner: Flight
Section 17: A Struggling World
Chapter 33: The Great Depression
Culture Corner: The Golden Age of Hollywood
Chapter The Spanish Civil War
Section 18: Fascism on the Rise
Chapter 35: Mussolini
Chapter 36: The Rise of Hitler