“All this Silver of Japan”: Japanese Silver and the First Global Economy
How Japanese silver was critical to the First Global Economy
“Distant Parts of the World are Connected with One Another”: The Causes of the First Global Economy
Using maps to teach the causes of the first global economy
“Countless Shops Filled with Diverse Goods”: Introducing the First Global Economy
What do paintings reveal about Portugal’s role in the First Global Economy?
“Our Uzbek History is Tied Up with Cotton”: Cotton in Late Imperial Russian and Soviet Central Asia
Teaching Russian and Soviet Colonialism
“Leading Russia Nearer and Nearer to Utter Ruin”: Teaching the Russo-Japanese War from a Global Perspective
Reframing how we teach the Russo-Japanese War
“A Growing Persistence among Workers in the Economic Struggle”: Two Competing Visions of Late Imperial Russian Industrialization
Two approaches to teaching Russian industrialization
“On Arrival at the Market with their Grain”: Grain and Mass Production in Late Imperial Russia
Rethinking how we teach late imperial Russia’s economic changes
“Death Came Suddenly to the Brave Troops and Valiant Cossacks”: Indigenous Resistance to Russian Expansion in Siberia
The Russian “conquest” of Siberia regularly encountered Siberian resistance
“Sables, Ermines, and Squirrel Skins”: Teaching the Fur Trade and Russia in World History
Teaching Russian history and the fur trade
Narrating the Global History of Lisbon
Lisbon is more than a European city; it’s also an African and Asian city
