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The Khost Rebellion was an uprising by the Mangal Pashtun tribe, later joined by the Sulaiman Khel and Ali Khel tribes, against the Westernising reforms made by King Amanullah.

Atay was of a generation deeply committed to the Westernising, scientific, secular culture encouraged by the revolution of the 1920s; he had no nostalgia for the corruption of the late Ottoman Empire, though he knew its literature, and was in particular well versed in Divan poetry.

As before in Russian history, the goal is to modernize without Westernizing.

And in rapidly Westernizing Poland, they are no longer a rarity.

Turkey changed to the Latin alphabet in 1928 as part of an internal Westernizing revolution.

Ladd became the house specialist in the "Westernizing" of overseas animated programming.

For many rural Indians, insulated from the westernizing of urban India, the highway is the most dramatic change in their lifetimes.

This happens when the cast members reinterpret, without the Westernizing gloss, a tribalesque number they had previously performed in Top 40 style.

Haruko was one of the leaders of the strong Westernizing trend, Bunmei Kaika.

Visiting his girlfriend in a rapidly Westernizing Poland, he said, "I was impressed that I couldn't do what other people could."

Ms. Mackey shows how Riza Shah, the Westernizing nationalist, destroyed the traditional balance between crown and mosque.

A dog, a charcoal-colored match for the German overcoat Ka proudly wears, persists in following him around as if to mock his Westernizing vanity.

We can hope that it is another version of Peter the Great - the Westernizing reformer - whose portrait hangs on President Vladimir Putin's wall.

These are societies whose oldest members can recall both the wave of Westernizing that began early in the century and the virtually feudal societies that it nearly swept away.

Michel Camau, a French academic authority on Tunisia, noted that Westernizing and Islamic currents have since the 19th century vied for control of the country's nationalist movement.

The Spanish Friars were the crucial elements in the Westernizing the Philippine Archipelago, and in spreading the Christian faith in this part of the world.

He pursued a Westernizing, modernizing economic policy, and a strongly pro-Western foreign policy; he also made a number of visits to America, where he was regarded as a friend.

A key distinctive of Olson's missionary work is that rather than "Westernizing" or "Americanizing" the Barí, he made a concerted effort to become a part of the indigenous tribe.

Many of the Akha people do not see the tourism as halting the Westernizing and Globalizing pressures, but rather, as a coercive commercialization and commodification of their culture.

And many analysts inside and outside Japan agree that despite the postwar Westernizing trend, it is relationships, much more than laws and regulations, that are the glue holding Japanese society together.

The Navy turned to the United Kingdom for assistance in modernizing and Westernizing, and the Royal Navy provided military advisors to assist in the development of the curriculum.

"Vladimir is so ambivalent: he's got both Moskvityanin-like pro-Russian views which I share myself, but also the Belinsky-inspired Westernizing," the poet wrote in a letter to P.A.Viskovatov.

A hundred years of fitful Westernizing, following Commodore Matthew Perry's famous "opening" of Japan to the West in 1853, had come to this, a suicidal attack in more ways than one.

In terms of Russian history, Putin compares himself not to Peter the Great, the Westernizing tsar, but, rather, to Pyotr Stolypin (1862-1911), the iron-fisted economic reformer of the pre-revolutionary period.

And in his hunger to be one of the young visionaries of perestroika, he is about to take the most radical step of his career - the Westernizing of the management techniques of his huge state monopoly.

They despise Mr. Yeltsin for his Westernizing influence, and hope to use the symbol of Nicholas and his murder to rally support for their authoritarian views and misplaced reverence for the imperial family.

A 1990's painting trend known as Cynical Realism shifts its attention away from a revolutionary past to an equally, if differently problematic present: a rapidly Westernizing China of stampeding commercialism, bureaucratic corruption and social inequities.