HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Westernization, Modern Artillery, Buddhism In Thailand
8 Nov 2020
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Western state could defend itself, in time its whole way of life was threatened, yet self-defense required some imitation of the west. Military modernization was often the entering wedge, and later it often called for further changes in spheres as diverse as social organization, education, and political life. ) Defensive modernization differs from westernization in the sense that its goal isn"t imitating or becoming the west, but it is protecting and enhancing their own power. Non-westerners borrow increasingly, but selectively, from western technology and culture. They wanted the visible benefits of industrial technology, but they also wanted to preserve their own way of life. In spite of alternation between rulers who seemed to be modernizing and others whom the missionaries called reactionary, the missionaries were proud of their success and the kingdom was officially christian after 1869) They failed to modernize beyond adopting christianity and superficial european fashions.
