Southeast Asia
“As Soon as the Merchants Arrive”: Melaka and Indian Ocean Trade Before 1450
Discussion of teaching Melaka
“Gujarati Clothes are Held in Great Value”: The Demand for Indian Textiles in Southeast Asia, c.1400
Discussion of teaching Indian textile trade in Southeast Asia
“A Turning Point in My Life”: East Asia in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching East Asia in 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
“They All Must Have Opium”: The Diversity of the British Opium Trade
Discussion of Teaching Indian Opium Production
“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade
Discussion of teaching the nineteenth-century opium trade
“Looking For Hope, Betterment”: Global Migration, c.1920 - c.1960
Discussion of teaching global migration from 1920 to 1960
“I Left My Land to Come to Demerara”: Global Migration, c.1830 - c.1920
Discussion of teaching nineteenth-century global migration
“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
“The Voyage Was Full of Dangers”: Teaching Modern Migration, 1700 to Present
Discussion of teaching modern global migration from 1700 to today
