Southeast Asia
Monthly Digest: March 2024
Monthly digest for March 2024
“Ardently Desire the End of Colonialism”: Teaching Decolonization from 1955 to 1965
Discussion of how to teach decolonization from 1955 to 1965
“We Will Fight in Every Way We Can”: Teaching Decolonization from 1945 to 1955
Discussion of how to teach decolonization from 1945 to 1955 using African and Asian primary sources
“Conscious of Myself as a Kenya African”: The Effect of the Second World War on Colonial African Soldiers
Discussion of how the Second World affected African soldiers fighting in Asia.
“The Outbreak of the Present War”: Decolonization During and After the Second World War
Discussion of teaching decolonization’s connections to the Second World War and the Cold War
“The World Will Be Reconstructed”: Four Visions of Anticolonialism in 1920
Discussion of how to teach the various anticolonial strategies of 1920.
“Organizing the Rice Fields”: Teaching Southeast Asia’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution
Discussion of how to teach Southeast Asia’s economic changes in the nineteenth century
“Being Deeply Concerned with Agriculture”: The Spread of Champa Rice, and some surprises
Discussion of how to use different sources to teach the spread of Champa rice
Monthly Digest: July 2023
Monthly Digest for July 2023.
“The Number of Chinese Appears to be Very Considerable”: The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast in the Early Nineteenth Century
A discussion of how to teach Chinese migration to Southeast Asia in the early nineteenth century
