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Notes on video lecture:
1868 Japan: The Meiji Restoration
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 26, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Portugal, changed, gunboat, Napoleon, centralize, Meiji, fetters, localist, internal, unified, empires, 1895, 1912, linguistic, homogenous, absorbing, humiliating, Japan, Britain, Korea, Perry, isolation, Spanish, Tokugawa, Dutch, reconstituted, Black, literacy, Ottoman, national, Europe, empires, ineluctable, relics
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development of state power is a condition for                  identities
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the way nations were created often showed characteristics of the entities which nations wanted to overthrow, namely,               
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so empires didn't slide off the historic stage but get                           
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three categories of regimes after                 
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1. some parts of the world still had empires which were in a steady but                        state of long disintegration
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China
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India
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Spain
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Austro-Hungarian Empire
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Ottoman Empire
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multi-cultural, multi-denominational, multi-religious, often multi-                    
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had great trouble with states that could re-imagine themselves with the                      or claimed homogenous foundations of a nation
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these older stages become weaker as nations become stronger
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2. those in                  flux
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Africa
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               America
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unable to reconstitute themselves as older imperial             
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unable to mold themselves to mold themselves along national lines
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3. process of reconstituting themselves as nations
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political systems wielding resources that could bring national formations into being
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often                    features of empires in new ways
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these emerging states reconstituting themselves as nation in fact begin to feed off the old, disintegrating               
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               Empire
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Austrio-Hungarians
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to lay claim to a national grandeur
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best example was               
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a national empire
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Britain could imagine itself of a nation state
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with cousin members
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Canada
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India
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Australia
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South Africa
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later re-branded itself as the Commonwealth (1949)
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most countries were trying to do what the British was doing
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another example: Japan
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                 shogunate (1600–1868)
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had lived for a long state of relative                   
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the shogunate had kicked out foreigners, the            and the Portuguese
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had begun the process of integrating a                state of feudal lordship
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sovereign emperor
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was hard to keep these foreigners out
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especially with the arrival of steam
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1853: Admiral Matthew           
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Perry was assigned a mission by President Millard Fillmore to force the opening of Japanese ports to American trade, through the use of                diplomacy if necessary
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steamships known as The            Ships
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the military elites of Japan very quickly understood that the game had               
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the samurai realized that they had to meet this new challenge
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there was a technological gap
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highly motivated, they played a game of catch up
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tried to get rid of the                of progress
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tried to strengthen the military capability
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often in fact borrowing models of modernization from              and other places
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1868:            Restorers
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overthrow of the old Tokugawa regime
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consolidated the political system under the Emperor of Japan
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introduced the Meiji period which spanned from 1868 to          and was responsible for the emergence of Japan as a modernized nation in the early twentieth century
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the idea was that Meiji would restore the splendor and grandeur of           
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asserting the Emperor of the controlling force
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a national regime
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                     power
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get rid of the old,                  systems
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national business elites supported by the states
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economic and social ballast for the new centralizing, powerful integrating regime
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1890s
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were able to show off this grandeur in a series of conflicts
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took on some emperial features
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took advantage of older regimes
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1894-        :
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extruded outwards against China and Korea
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                       to the Chinese
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annexed many of the mainland
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Manchuria
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enabled the Japanese to portray itself as a larger, integrated nation
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created schools
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                 campaigns

Vocabulary:

ineluctable, adj. unable to be resisted or avoided, inescapable ⇒ "Some parts of the world still had empires which were in a steady but ineluctable state of long disintegration."

Spelling Corrections:

homogenious ⇒ homogeneous
Portugese ⇒ Portuguese
samari ⇒ samurai
balast ⇒ ballast
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