Discuss how processes of empire and nation played out during the Mexican Revolution. You can choose from the following topics: U.S.-Mexican relations and the nature of the U.S. "informal empire"; Mexican nationalism; colonial legacies in class relations, land distribution, and/or gender practices; notions of civilization and progress; tensions in Mexican liberalism; and the makeup of the Mexican revolutionaries. In order to discuss the theme of empire in your essay, you could focus on the legacies of Spanish colonialism or you could discuss U.S. imperialism in Mexico and Latin America. (It would also be possible to combine these two approaches).