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* CHICAGO/TURBIAN Format* history writing paper-02 Write a 3 – 5 page essay, word count at least 1100. (double-spaced) on ONE!!! of the following topics. Be sure to cite a wide range of primary and secondary sources from the class, including the assigned readings, optional readings, textbook, lectures, and at least one of the “optional readings” listed below. Cite these sources using Chicago-style footnotes ( <https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html>*https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citatio... <https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html> (Links to an external site.)* (Links to an external site.)). Use of internet sources is strongly discouraged. Make sure to support your arguments with reference to specific historical processes and events. Topics: 1. What was the more important turning point in modern global history: The Second World War or the end of the Cold War (including developments in the 1980s and 1990s in Asia as well as Europe)? Explain your choice. 2. Have the nation-state and nationalism been the most powerful mover of history since 1945, or has it been other factors, such as ideologies, businesses, organizations, individuals, etc? 3. How have humans been able to think and act on a global scale since 1945? What obstacles have stood in the way of global thought and action? 4. In what ways was Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History” correct or incorrect in its view of the history of the post-war world and its predictions for the post-1989 world? Make sure to rely on specific historical processes and events for your evidence. “Optional Readings” (most can be found online via the library’s website) Heather Goodall, “The Transnational Mission of an Indian War Correspondent: P.R.S. Mani in Southeast Asia, 1944 – 1946,” Modern Asian Studies 51:6 (2017). Tobias Rettig, “Recruiting the All-Female Rani of Jhansi Regiment: Subhas Chandra Bose and Dr. Lakshmi Swaminadhan,” South East Asia Research 21:4 (2013). Jonathan Oldfield, “V.I. Vernadsky and the Noosphere Concept: Russian Understandings of Society-Nature Interaction,” Geoforum 37:1 (2006): 145 – 154. Martin Manning, “Globalization of Baseball in Popular Culture,” in Frank Hoffman, et al, eds., Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2003). Stephen Fenichell, Plastics: The Making of a Synthetic Century (New York: HarperBusiness, 1996). Rachel Applebaum, “The Friendship Project: Socialist Internationalism in the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in the 1950s and 1960s,” Slavic Review 74:3 (2015): 484 – 507. Tina Mai Chen, “Aesthetics of Socialist Internationalism: Lenin Films in the People’s Republic of China,” Made in China Journal 5:1 (2020). Shale Horowitz, “Restarting Globalization after World War II: Structure, Coalitions, and the Cold War,” Comparative Political Studies 37:2 (2004): 127 – 151. Matthew R. Augustine, “The Limits of Decolonization: American Occupiers and the ‘Korean Problem” in Japan, 1945 – 1948,” International Journal of Korean History 22:1 (2017); 43 – 75. Louis W. Pauly, “The United Nations, the Bretton Woods Institutions, and the Reconstruction of a Multilateral Order,” in Louis W. Pauly, et al, Global Ordering: Institutions and Autonomy in a Changing World (Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2009). Ranabir Samaddar, “Occupy College Street: Student Radicalism in Kolkata in the Sixties,” Slavic Review 77:4 (2018): 904 – 911. Will Steffen, et al, “The Trajectory of the Anthropocene: The Great Acceleration,” The Anthropocene Review 2:1 (2015), 81 – 98. Ted Steinberg, “Can Karl Polyani Explain the Anthropocene? The Commodification of Nature and the Great Acceleration,” The Geographical Review 109:2 (April, 2019): 265 – 270. Sebastian Conrad, “’The Colonial Ties are Liquidated’: Modernization Theory, Post-War Japan and the Global Cold War,” Past & Present 216 (2012): 181 – 214. Sam Lebovic, “’Here, There and Everywhere’: The Beatles, America, and Cultural Globalization,” Journal of American Studies 51:1 (2017): 43 – 65. .doc file | *CHICAGO/TURBIAN |* Essay | 3 pages, Double spaced