Major comparisons and snapshots
- Compare the causes and early phases of the industrial revolution in western Europe and Japan
- Compare the Haitian and French Revolutions
- Compare reaction to foreign domination in: the Ottoman Empire, China, India, Southeast Asia and Japan
- Compare nationalism in the following pairs: China and Japan, Egypt and Italy, Pan Africanism and the Indian Congress Movement
- Compare forms of western intervention in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia
- Compare the roles and conditions of elite women in Latin America with those in Western Europe before 1850
