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角川まんが学習シリーズ 世界の歴史 #13
角川まんが学習シリーズ 世界の歴史 13 帝国主義と抵抗する人々 一八九〇~一九一〇年
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December 16, 2023
Volume 13 kicks off with European colonization of Africa, using as background the story of a newspaper reporter in Victorian England. In response to colonialism and industrialization, socialist/worker’s rights movements and voters rights movements are also on the rise.
Section II of this volume moves to efforts to reform the governments in the greater Islamic world. We follow the life of Jamal Adeen al Afghani (my best guess at the English spelling of Japanese phonetics), as he travels from Afghanistan to Iran to Egypt and then to Turkey, each time leaving a democratic reform movement in his wake, with each getting mostly quashed by the powers that be.
The third section takes us back to China being further sliced and diced by the European powers with Japan now getting in on the act. China’s leader squashes internal government reform efforts and faces the Boxer Rebellion. The Europeans band together with the Japanese and rip the crap out of the Boxers. Then after gradually encroaching Russia rejects all their requests for protection of Japanese interests in the Korean peninsula, Japan rips Russia a new one. England backstops their newest Asian ally by shutting the Russian Baltic Fleet out of the Suez Canal and all the British coaling stations between the Baltic and the Sea of Japan. Then Admiral Togo and the Japanese Imperial Navy ka-boom this Russian fleet straight to the bottom of Tsushima Strait. Slava Ukraini.
The final section covers the colonization of South and Southeast Asia, and the development of indigenous movements against European dictatorial rulers. The story of the anti-colonization movement among Vietnamese is particularly interesting—in their turning to Japan, finding allies there, and then discovering that Japan has now joined up with the colonizers.
On to Volume 14 and World War.
Section II of this volume moves to efforts to reform the governments in the greater Islamic world. We follow the life of Jamal Adeen al Afghani (my best guess at the English spelling of Japanese phonetics), as he travels from Afghanistan to Iran to Egypt and then to Turkey, each time leaving a democratic reform movement in his wake, with each getting mostly quashed by the powers that be.
The third section takes us back to China being further sliced and diced by the European powers with Japan now getting in on the act. China’s leader squashes internal government reform efforts and faces the Boxer Rebellion. The Europeans band together with the Japanese and rip the crap out of the Boxers. Then after gradually encroaching Russia rejects all their requests for protection of Japanese interests in the Korean peninsula, Japan rips Russia a new one. England backstops their newest Asian ally by shutting the Russian Baltic Fleet out of the Suez Canal and all the British coaling stations between the Baltic and the Sea of Japan. Then Admiral Togo and the Japanese Imperial Navy ka-boom this Russian fleet straight to the bottom of Tsushima Strait. Slava Ukraini.
The final section covers the colonization of South and Southeast Asia, and the development of indigenous movements against European dictatorial rulers. The story of the anti-colonization movement among Vietnamese is particularly interesting—in their turning to Japan, finding allies there, and then discovering that Japan has now joined up with the colonizers.
On to Volume 14 and World War.
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