Great Leaps Forward: Modernizers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

INTRODUCTION Definitions The West Invents Modernity Was there an Industrial Revolution? The Industrial Revolution and Western Power Shock and Awe in the Periphery The Premodern World From Premodern to Modern Coming to Grips with the West Catching the West: Precocious Egypt Catching the West: Meiji Japan The Periphery Fights Back Modernization in the Colonies The Structure of this Book 1. Porfirio Diaz: Importing Modernity Spain's Jewel in the Crown Rich Colony Struggling Republic Years of Chaos La Reforma and the French Invasion The Rise of Porfirio Diaz Diaz in Power Modernizing Mexico The Diaz System Premodern Mexico Railroads: Touchstones of Modernity The American Connection Exports versus Indians Indians and Immigrants Industrializing Mexico The New Economy Breeds Unrest Educating the Masses Toward the Revolution Sources Porfirio Diaz, Memorias Mexicothrough American Eyes A Cientifico Analyzes the Porfiriato Diaz Campaign Image 2. Menelik II: Africa's Modernizing Lion An Ancient People An Ambitious King Appropriating European Power Italy's Empire in Africa Fortifying Shoa Menelik Becomes Emperor Imperial Rivalries The Battle of Adowa Suddenly "Civilized" Repercussions of Adowa Forging a Centralized State Economic Change Menelik's Concessions Conclusion Sources Menelik Writes to the King of Italy Ethiopia from a British Diplomat's Perspective Ethiopia's Economy through American Eyes Ethiopian Railroad Stock Certificate 3. Sun Yatsen: Revolutionary Outsider The World's Greatest Premodern State Barbarians at the Gate Self-Strengthening to Save the Empire Sun Yatsen and the Overseas Chinese From Medicine to Politics From Reformer to Revolutionary Revolution from Afar The Boxers Blueprint for a New China A Decade of Change Creating the Republic Developing China A Second Revolution Unlikely Anti-Imperialist Redefining the Three Principles Conclusion Sources Sun Yatsen Pleads for Reform, 1894 Sun Yatsen Issues the Republican Manifesto, 1912 Sun Yatsen Explains the Principle of Livelihood,1912 A Picture of Rural Life In China 4. Mustafa Kemal: Muslim Modernity Europe's "Other" Early Efforts at Reform Reforming a Multicultural Empire The Rise of Mustafa Kemal The Young Turks Mustafa Kemal, War Hero From Empire to Republic A Revolutionary Republic The First Wave The New Woman Modernizing the Mind Reforming the Language "Turkification" or Westernization? Failed Opposition Modernizing the Economy Legacy of Reform Sources Mustafa Kemal's Great Speech The Idea of the Republic Abolishing the Sultanate Suppressing the Republic's Enemies Early Reforms EPILOGUE: MAKING CONNECTIONS THE ROADS TO MODERNITY Centralization Infrastructure and Industry Secularization National Identity Democracy Social Engineering Modernization and the Cold War Modernization or Westernization? BIBLIOGRAPHY