Ottoman Empire
Total War and the Ottoman Empire
Using Ottoman primary sources to teach total war
“At Variance with the Europeans”: East Africa, 1400 - c.1750
Discussion of teaching early modern East Africa
“The New Institutions”: Teaching Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Reforms
Teaching the social effects of the Ottoman Tanzimat
“Such a State is Bound to Disappear”: The Middle East in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching the Middle East during the World Wars
“Freedom of Trade in Opium”: Teaching Opium Production and Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century
Discussion of late nineteenth-century opium economy in Anatolia, Persia, and Southeast Asia
“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade
Discussion of teaching the nineteenth-century opium trade
“Longing for their Homes”: The Middle Passage and the Development of Modern Migration, 1700 to 1830
Discussion of teaching the Middle Passage as the start of modern migration
“Frequently Invaded Iran”: Relations between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires
Discussion of teaching the Ottomans & Safavids in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
“The Tax Officials are to Pay Installments”: Ottoman Tax Farming in the Fifteenth Century
Discussion of teaching tax farming
Visualizing the Increased Use of Gunpowder
Teaching the use of gunpowder using paintings
