
Walter A. McDougall
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Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Author of The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age and others.
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New Imperialism, period of intensified imperialistic expansion from the latter half of the 19th century until the outbreak of World War I in 1914. The renewed push to expand territorial control included not only the earlier colonial powers of western Europe but also newcomers such as Germany,…
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