Naval Battle of Port Arthur, 1904. Russo-Japanese War. Picture Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images

The Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars

Professor Jeremy Black discusses rising powers and two turn of the century great power conflicts

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In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black talks to The Critic‘s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about the Spanish-American war of 1896 and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, conflicts often interpreted as differentiating rising and declining powers.

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