1) How did industrialization affect the character of European overseas expansion? How did people in the countries and regions subject to various forms of imperialist control struggle to resist their subjugation by powerful foreign intruders?
After answering these two very broad questions, provide a more specific account of one country (your choice) where the dynamic between control and resistance seems to you particularly illustrative or noteworthy.
2) We are working on two skills. First, you want to be able to provide a reliable summary of large historical processes (industrialization and modern imperialism). Reliable in this case means someone reading your summary would get an accurate description of the central developments that are occurring. Since it is a short writing assignment, you want to make sure you discern and describe only the main points emphasized by lecturer and/or textbook author. Second, you want to be able to provide a detailed account of one particular setting where the larger processes just described can be seen in operation. The more specific information you supply here should be consistent with help illustrate or flesh out the broad generalizations made in response to the first two questions. Throughout, you should draw on lectures and readings.
All historical explanations reliable ones, at least – are exercises in zooming in and out from general trends to specific events.
