History writing paper-01Essay 2 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_citatio… (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: “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.