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  • World History: Imperialism and War
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    • Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century
    • The Impact of Imperialism
    • Imperialism, Modernization and Resistance
    • The Causes of World War One
    • World War One: Global War
    • The Impact of Global War
    • The Interwar Years
    • The Rise of Totalitarian States: Russia and Italy
    • Totalitarianism and Militarism: Germany and Japan

Imperialism, Modernization and Resistance

1. Overview
2. The European conquest of Africa
3. Imperialism and technology
4. Asian Responses to Imperialism
5. The Qing Dynasty
6. The Opium Wars
7. The Taiping and Boxer Rebellions
8. Japanese Imperialism
9. The Ottoman Empire
10. The Indian Mutiny
11. Economic imperialism in Latin America
12. Western anti-imperialism
13. Review

The Opium Wars

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Read the below article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

  • What caused the Opium Wars?
  • Who won the Opium Wars?
  • What was the impact of the Opium Wars on China, and on the Qing Dynasty?

Philip Allingham, ‘England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60’, The Victorian Web: Literature, History and Culture in the Age of Victoria, June 2006.

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  • China’s humiliation …
  • The key to British victory …

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