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“These New Rulers are Quite Alien”: Indian Views of Europeans in the Late 1700s
How did Indians view Europeans in the late 1700s?
“The Finest and Most Fruitful Country in the World”: The Importance of Agriculture in the First Global Economy
Teaching the Centrality of Agriculture to the First Global Economy
“Objects that Resemble the Ceramics of China”: Imitating Chinese Porcelain, c.1400 - c.1800
How potters around the world imitated Chinese porcelain in the First Global Economy
“A Constant Succession of Flames and Smoke”: Jingdezhen, the Chinese Porcelain Industry, and its Global Appeal, c.1400 - c.1800
Visualizing the global popularity of Chinese porcelain in the First Global Economy
“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
