Discuss this process with special emphasis on the period from roughly 1870 to 1960.
The history of Europe in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries was in many ways the history of the world. As such, Europe came to define itself against the non-European parts of the globe which it, in many cases, came to rule over. Discuss this process with special emphasis on the period from roughly 1870 to 1960. What ideas, developments, and events led to and supported this period of European influence and empire, and which led to its dismantlement?
