March 19th stayer chapter 19, empires in collision

."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 converted to christianity or studied European literature and philosophy.

  fourth, and finally, they too engaged with the culture of modernity its scientific rationalism its technological achievements its belief in a better future and its ideas of nationalism, socialism, feminism, and individualism. in those epic encounters, they sometimes resisted, at other times accommodated, and almost always adapted what came from the west. they were active participants in the global drama of nineteenth century world history not simply its passive victims or beneficiaries. dealing with Europe, however, was not the only iteam on their agendas. population growth and peasant rebellion wracked china internal social and economic changed eroded the stability of Japanese public life, the great empires of the islamic world shrank or disappeared rivlary among competing elites troubled Latin American societies, Ethiopia launched its own empire building process even as it resisted European intrusions".

In this chapter I recall that not only was there economic improvement but also socially and also ways were changing for the people that were living in that society. Once again and Ive said this in most of my blogs but all content I wright on here is directly from our history book that we use in class. I shall be now adding on a little bit of more content from the book that I think would help people study and also myself to when a quiz is coming up, " These circumstances gave Japan some breathing space, and its new rulers moved quickly to take advantage of that unique window of opportuninty. Thus they launched a cascading wave of dramatic changes that rolled over the country in the last three decades of the nineteenth century. Like the more modest reforms of china and the Ottoman Empire, Japanese modernizing efforts were defensive, based on fears that Japanese independence was in grave danger".