Unit 8:: Non-European Appropriations of Modernity

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Unit 8: Non-European Appropriations of Modernity
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.036

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While the Ottoman Empire, the Qing Empire, and Tokugawa Japan all enjoyed relatively prolonged periods of stability and prosperity in the early-modern period, by the nineteenth century all three of these polities had entered into a state of inexorable decline marked internally by corruption and local rebellions and externally by increasingly assertive European nation-states. Non-Western states that faced the existential nineteenth-century threat from such modern nation-states as Great Britain and France were in a very real sense caught between two competing forces, each of which held dangers for the empire in decline.

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