The world at the beginning of the Twentieth Century:Emerging forces and ideologies

This text provides concise explanations of the key political of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Using illustrations and maps, the topics covered include the First World War and its causes, the peace and the prelude to the Second World War.

This text provide a comprehensive analysis of 19th Century European social and political history leading into the First World War.

An in-depth analysis of the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences, and cultural life from the height of the industrial revolution to the First World War. It includes chapters on democracy, socialism, nationalism, the rise of the middle class, and the changing role of women.

This documentary looks at Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th Centuries when the great empires were crumbling and the peoples of Europe turned to nationhood to instil security and a sense of belonging. In Turkey, the reign of the tyrannical sultans was swept away, and replaced in 1908 by a group known as the Young Turks, a group of military men who no longer saw the empire as a priority.

This documentary describes Robert Owen and early utopian socialism in Britain and the United States before discussing the development of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Attention turns to Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Revolution, the American labor movement, and finishes with an examination of Canadian socialism.