WHAP 5.6

• Each country = pressures between preservation of traditional values and modernization
• Egypt: Muhammad Ali- reforms modeled after Euro sorta not really under the Ottomans
• Egyptian Econ: peasants give up lands to state; gov control cotton production and make money off exports (ex: Napoleonic wars wheat)
• Egypt: Ali's state sponsored industrialization
• Japan's rapid less than half a century industrialization
• Challenges to Japan's Isolation: all the great powers of Europe wanted to sell goods in Japan and be able to refuel there (iso 16000-1854)
• Meiji Restoration: led by revolutionaries who overthrew the shogun and restored power to the emp 1868; argued that Japan should adopt enough Western tech and methods so it could protect its traditional culture
• Charter Oath: abolished feudalism in Japan
• Japan est a constitutional monarchy, emp ruled thru a subordinate polict leader
• Japanese gov financed reforms with a high agricultural tax; rapid econ growth and revenue for bureaucracy
• Replicated Western countries led to replication of indust society problems: Japan=Britain- female mill workers
• Private Investment: Zaibatsu (Japanese conglomerates); the prospect of attracting investors