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strayer chapter 18 ."In mid 1967, I ( robes strayer) was on summer break from a teaching assignment with the peace corps in Ethiopia and was traveling with some friends in neighboring Kenya, just four years after that country had gained its independence from British colonial rule. the bus we were riding on broke down, and I found myself hitchhiking across kenya, heading for Uganda. soon I was picked up by a friendly Englishman, one of Kenyas famous Rift Valley, and we were approached by a group of boys selling baskets and other tourist items. they spoke to us in good English, but my British companion replied to them in Swahili. he lated explained that europeans generally did not speak English with the natives. I was puzzled, but reluctant to inquire further". "For many millions of africans, asians, and Pacific Islanders, colonial rule by the British, French, germans, Italians, Belgians, Portuguese, Russians, or Americans was the major new element in their historical ...

 February 26, strayer chapter 17 . "The global context for this epochal economic transformation lies in a very substantial increase in human numbers from about 375 million people in 1400 to about 1 billion in the early nineteenth century. accompanying this growth in population was an emerging energy crisis, most pronounced in Western Europe, china and Japan as wood and charcoal the major industrial fuels, became scarcer and their prices rose. in short global energy demands began to push against the existing local and regional ecological limits. in broad terms, the industrial revolution marks a human response to that dilemma as nonrenewable fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas replaced the endlessly renewable energy sources of wind water wood and the muscle power of people and animals. It was a breakthrough of unprecedented proportions that made available for human use, at least temporarily, immensely greater quantities  of enerfy. sustaining the industrial revoluti...

."china was among  the countries that confronted an aggressive and industrializing west while maintaining its formal independence unlike the colonized areas discussed in chapter 18. so too did Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Persia(not siren), Ethiopia and siam( new Thailand). Latin America also falls in this category. these states avoided outright incorporation into European colonial empires, retaining some ability to resist European aggression and to reform or transform their own societies. but they shared with their colonized counterparts the need to deal with four dimensions of the European moment in the world  history.first, they faced the immense military might and  political ambitions of rival European states. sec migration that arose from an industrializing and capitalist Europe to generate a new world economy. Third, they were touched by various  aspects of traditional European culture, as some  among them learned the French, English, or German language conv...