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ImperialismCauses and strategies Reactions to expansion-Increasing tensions among industrial powers.-Increasing agitation for national independence.-Scrambles for conglomerate Africa China, Latin America.--China--the Boxer Rebellion.--Latin America and Free Trade Imperialism---The scramble brings recent players.---The United States.----Internal imperialism.---Rivalries and alliances-Independence movement leads to revolution (massmovement)--Latin America-middle class join elites or masses.---The governance of 1917.-Independence deferred India--Development of Indian Nationalist-divided nationalism b/w Hindu & MuslimIndustrialization-Recruitment of perception in industrialization-Premier industries-Transportation, materials, electricity and communication-Standardizing process and pass waterers.--The automobile and mass production assembly line production--scientific watchfulness Time and motion studies.-communications telegraph-Electric light and power systemsThe two faces of knowledge in the industrial age.Science and social uplift Industrial science and monopoly capitalism.Modernization Bourgeois liberalism rule of law, contracts, rights Industrial capitalism release markets, free labor, mechanization, growth of professional classes.-Ottoman Turks indebted to France and Britain brings reforms.Financial infrastructure, class formation, urbanization.-Lack of industrialization, and trade deficits. new(a) Ottomans and demands for constitution & parliament.-Western liberalism, Turkish nationalism, Islamic modernism.Globalization Supplying the industrial west creating an endemical middle class, encouraging European bourgeois values.-Igniting indigenous nationalism and reform movements.-Usually without mass support.N. Africa Egyptian modernization under Muhammad Ali.The limits of modernization.-The rotation of 1857-8 and annexation The emergence of middle-class. Indian nationalists Formation of the Indian National Congress.-During the Opium contend Chi nese military weakness modern weaponry-Industrial Revolution " placidity revolution" Making use of surplus rural labor-Britain firstly Population growth, market and social structure, religious dissent the "Protestant work ethic."Agricultural revolution, enclosure movement, rural poverty.Selective breeding, fertilization, land reclamation render sources coal, tapping greater energy supplies.Capital resources empire, trade, banks.Domestic peace (no wars on British soil).-The transportation & communications revolutions.turnpikes (roads) Canals railroads telegraph.-Urbanization and growth of municipal government.