The essay question will ask you to contend with one of the following topics:
1.
Examine the impact of nationalism in Western Europe, East Asia, and the Americas from 1789 to 1900.
2.
Analyze the impact of the industrial revolution on the lives of ordinary people in Europe and East Asia in the 19th century.
3.
Compare the attempts to forge a “unified” nation-state in at least three of the nations we have examined as case studies (France, Haiti, Venezuela, Japan).