From the Federal Point Historic Preservation Society January 2017 newsletter.
Text from "American Political and Social History" by Harold Underwood Faulkner, published May 1937 by F.S. crofts & Co., New York.
A WORLD POWER
"...As the nations of Western Europe became industrialized, they sought an outlet for manufactured goods in the less developed regions of the world. Great Britain had obtained the lion's share, but the decade after 1870 other nations moved aggresively to obtain what was left.
"Behind this imperialistic rivalry was France seeking to restore her national spirit after her defeat in 1870 (the Franco-Prussian War); Germany, with an amazing industrial development and with the most powerful army in the world, demanding "a place in the sun"; Russia in search of an ice-free port on the Pacific; and Japan looking for markets to support her teeming population."
--Cooter
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