You will prepare and submit a term paper on Nationalism in Africa and Asia as a Mass Movement. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length.

You will prepare and submit a term paper on Nationalism in Africa and Asia as a Mass Movement. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length. The book, After the Tamerlane: the rise and fall of global empires, 1400-200 by John Darwin, is an impressive example of the macro narrative approach to the history of the world that has been (Anderson, 2006, p170). The writer provides a well argued, nuanced yet so clear, and highly informative overview of more than half a millennium of interaction cross-continentally and exchange, which he relates to his main theme-the rise and fall of global empires. Starting with a well-produced survey of the state of various Asian empires circa 1500, the writer sets out to decentre the overwhelmingly European-focused macro-narrative that has dominated thinking and writing about the rise and fall of expansive colonizing polities for centuries (Anderson, 2006, p183). The writer is able to sustain this shift in perspective quite well through the early chapters, which converge in his discussion the factors leading to the ‘great divergence’, which has received a considerable deal of concentration on the fraction of the world’s historians in the recent years (Anderson, 2006, p190).