Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
I'd stay away from trying to compare "zation" in Iraq, as someone said that history is still being written and current events can distract.

More difficult would be to add a third non-US "zation". E.g. Portugal in Africa, especially in the "sideshow" Guinea-Bissau. How about the Phillipines?

davidbfpo
I'd echo this, especially for a Master's thesis. When I compare how ambitious/naive my initial vague idea for a PhD thesis was versus the far narrower topic I ended up actually writing on, the gap is huge. And that's leaving aside the whole issue of history still being written.

I wrote a short undergraduate dissertation several years ago on the same subject, Earl Cornwallis and the failure of Southern loyalism. Be happy to email it to you, PM me if interested.