books.google.co.uk - In 1800, Europeans governed about one-third of the world's land surface; by the start of World War I in 1914, Europeans had imposed some form of political or economic ascendancy on over 80 percent of the globe. The basic structure of global and European politics in the twentieth century was fashioned...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Encyclopedia_of_the_age_of_imperialism.html?id=NtEZ7Zq7s-gC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareEncyclopedia of the age of imperialism
