We will replace some class meetings with trips to the Rubin Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Please insert times you are free for these trips into this Scheduling GoogleSheet. Assume we need at least three hours. [Conclusion for Fall 2021: Saturday is the only day that works: our trip to the Rubin will be Oct 16. See Week 6 below.]

 

PART ONE. (Weeks 1-6) Mobile Space and Cultural Territory, to circa 1200: Featuring Travels of Buddhism

Week 1. Thursday 2 Sept + Tues-Thurs 7-9 Sept

THEME: Spatial Histories and Natural Environments

• READ: David Ludden, “Maps in the Mind and the Mobility of Asia,” Journal of Asian Studies, 62, 4, 2003, 1057-78. (online PDF)
• READ:  John Brooke and Henry Misa, “Earth, Water, Air, and Fire: Toward an Ecological History of PremodernInner Eurasia,” (Online Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (hereafter: OREAH). (25pp) 
• and STUDY: The Asian Monsoon – The World’s Largest Weather System (GeoDiode, Yutube 16:56).
• View Video: (you need to be signed into NYU Zoom) “Environments: Monsoon Asia.”

            No writing assignment this week. In class: Tuesday: introduction to the course

Thursday: How natural environments stimulate mobility and territoriality, focusing specifically on nomadism and sedentarism, and agro-pastoral interactions.

Week 2. Sept 14-16. No class Sept 14, 2021 (I am in NYUAD, remotely)

THEME: Nomads, Merchants, and Farmers: Kushanas, Turks, and Bedouins.

Read: Peter Golden, Central Asia in World History. (NYU Ebook Central), pp.1-37. 

Nicolai Kradin, “Ancient Nomad Steppe Societies,” (OUP Online Research Encyclopedia of Asian History OREAH)  (10pp).

Michal Biran, “Introduction: Nomadic Culture (pp.1-9), Anatoly M. Khazanov, “The Scythians and their Neighbors,” (pp.32-49), and William Honeychurch, “From Steppe roads to Silk Roads: Inner Asian Nomads and Early Inter-regional Exchange,” (pp.50-88) in Nomads As Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors, edited by Reuvan Amitai, Michael Biran, and Anand A.Yang, University of Hawaii Press, 2014)

Recommended (and for class lecture):

Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and its Enemies : The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, p.313-339.

Nicola Di Cosmo & M. Maas (Editors.). (2018). Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018 (Cambridge Core ebook).

Lorenzo Crescioli,. “The Scythians and the Eastern Limits of the Greek Influence: The Pazyryk Culture and Its Foreign Artistic Influences,” in With Alexander in India and Central Asia: Moving East and Back to West, edited by Claudia Antonetti and Paolo Biagi, Oxbow Books, Philadelphia, 2017, pp. 122–151.

            1-page paper #1 due by Thursday afternoon. (Strategy: each week, your response papers should consider how readings and class presentations and discussion contribute to the five page paper due at the end of each part of the course. For Part One, see Prompt in Week 5.

Week 3. Sept 21-23. Travels of Buddhism: The Tropics

THEME: Merchants, Monks, and Rulers

Read: Richard Davis, Global India circa 100CE, pp. 6-44.

Liu Xin Ru, “Early Buddhism,” (OREAH) (10pp).

Tansen Sen, “Buddhism and the Maritime Crossings.” (16pp)

Buddhism and Buddhist Art. Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Essays, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, edited by John Guy, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2014, pp. 3-24, 11-121 (also study maps and browse catalogue, p.74)

UNESCO: Sacred City of Anuradhapura

Recommended: – 

Jason Emmanuel Neelis, Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks : Mobility and Exchange Within and Beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia, Brill, 2010.  (online PDF), Chap 1-3, pp.1-228.

Angela Schottenhammer, editor. Early Global Interconnectivity Across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I : Commercial Structures and Exchanges. Springer International Publishing, 2019, Introduction pp 1-17.

Jean Deloche, “Roman Trade Routes in South India.” Indian Journal of History of Science, 45,1, 2010, 33-46.

Étienne de la Vaissière,. Sogdian Traders : A History. Brill, 2005

Primary Sources: The Periplus Maris Erythraei. 

online maps: Silk Road Cities Reference Map,  Travels of Buddhism GoogleMap

Slides for Class, Weeks 3-4: TRAVELS OF BUDDHISM, circa 500BCE-1200CE

1-page paper #2 due by Thursday afternoon.

Week 4. Sept 28-30. Travels of Buddhism: Northern Circuits.

THEME: Nomads, Merchants, Monks, and Patrons

Read: PC Bagchi, “The Beginnings of Buddhism in China,” in India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy: A Collection of Essays by Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi, edited by Bangwei Wang and Tansen Sen, Anthem Press, 2011, pp. 13–24.

Tansen Sen, editor. Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange. Singapore: ISEAS Publishing, 2014, Introduction, pp.xi-xxiii.

Max Deeg, “Chinese Buddhist Travelers” (OREAH)  (12pp)

Faxian travel map.

Natasha Heller, “Buddhist Religious Practice in Imperial China,” (OREAH) (12pp)

Liu, Xinru. “A Silk Road Legacy: The Spread of Buddhism and Islam.” Liu, Xinru. “Journal of World History, vol. 22, no. 1, Mar. 2011, pp. 55–81.

Valerie Hansen, “The Devotional Use of Buddhist Art in Ennin’s Diary,” Orientations, 45, 3, 2014, 77-82.

Recommended: (and for lecture)

Buddhism in Korea, at the Met.

Brown Library Tibetan Buddhism Website.

Rubin Museum, “Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism.”

Jason Emmanuel Neelis, Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks : Mobility and Exchange Within and Beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia, Brill, 2010.  (online PDF), Chap 4-7, pp.228-320.

Tansen Sen, “Itineraries of Images as Agents of Integration in the Buddhist Cosmopolis,” in Pamela Smith ed. Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledge across Eurasia. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019, pp.182-201.

1-page paper #3 due by Thursday afternoon

Week 5. Oct 5-7. Territorial Buddhism, 900-1500: Theravada, Mahayana, Vajrayana

THEME: Religious Belief, Patronage, and State Power

Read: Charles  Keyes, “Theravada Buddhism and Buddhist Nationalism: Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand.” The Review of Faith and International Affairs, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 41–52. (Online PDF).

David Ludden, “The Decline of Buddhism, Revisited: The Rise of Hindu Territorial Hegemony, c.950-1250,” in Clio and Her Descendants: Essays for Kesavan Veluthat, edited by Manu V. Devadevan, Delhi: Primus Books, 132-162.

Jacob Dalton, The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, pp.1-22 (and anything else you like)

 Michael Aung-Thwin. Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma. University of Hawaii Press, 1985, pp.30-68.

Recommended: 

Francois Houtart, “Theravada Buddhism and Political Power -Construction and Destructuration of its Ideological Function,” Social Compass, 24, 2-3, 1977,  207-246. (PDF online)

Johannes Bronkhorst. Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism. E.J. Brill, 2011, pp.12-25, 99-130.

Giovanni Verardi, Hardships and Downfall of Buddhism in India. Manohar, 2011.

SLIDES FOR CLASS: Migrations and Military Patronage 600-1200

In class, Thursday: discuss 5-page paper #1 assignment.

1-page paper #4 due by Thursday afternoon. 

PROMPT FOR 5-Page paper#1:   In no more than five double spaced pages, describe the historical spread of Buddhism: keep in mind its geography, timing, and major actors.

Week 6. Oct 14.  (No class TUES Oct 12, when classes meet on Monday Schedule.) 

No extra reading for this week. Focus on 5-page paper#1. Office Hours Wed 12-2 by appointment. Thursday class open for discussion of 5-page paper#1 (or intro to Part Two.)

5-page paper #1 due Friday (see assignment in Week 5).

Saturday October 16 — visit Rubin Museum (see discussion page for details)

HERE is the link to the Rubin Museum and GATEWAY TO HIMALAYAN ART
EXHIBITION,  JUNE 11, 2021 – JUNE 5, 2023

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 PART TWO. (Weeks 7-11) Asia’s Circulatory System, to circa 1600: Featuring Travels of Muslims and Mongols  

Week 7. Oct 19-21. Migration, Trade, Islam, and Empire, 600-1200: Abbasid, Tang-Song, Rashtrakuta, Srivijaya, Chola

THEME: Expanding Mobility and Territorial Power, after 600CE (Ref Week 5)

Read:Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in world History: Power and the Politics of Difference, Princeton, 2010, Chapter 3. “After Rome: Empire, Christianity, and Islam, pp. 61-92 (PDF online)

Michael R. Drompp, “The Kök Türk Empires,” OREAH. (10pp.)

Michael R. Drompp, “The Uyghur Empire (744-840),” OREAH. (10pp.)

Philippe Beaujard, “Islam: The Conquest of Lands and Oceans.” In The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A Global History (pp. 42-71). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019 (online PDF)

Video on Abbasid-Tang conflict at the Battle of Talas, 751. 12:22

Lynda Shaffer, “Southernization.” Journal of World History, 5, 1, 1994, 1–21.

Song Dynasty Website: “the most advanced society in the world.”

Tamara Bently, “Trade in the East and South China Seas.” (OREAH).  (20pp)

Recommended and for lecture:

Michael McCormick, et al. “Climate Change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the Past from Scientific and Historical Evidence.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 43, no. 2, 2012, pp. 169–220. (online PDF).

Hsueh-man Shen, “The China–Abbasid Ceramics Trade during the Ninth and Tenth Centuries,”  in A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, First Edition. Edited by Finbarr Barry Flood and Gülru Necipoğlu, New York: Wiley and Sons, 2017, pp.197-217. (PDF onine)

Richard Von Glahn, The Economic History of China, Chapter 6. pp. 208-255. 

John Chaffee, The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018, pp. 1-75.

John Miksit, “Chinese Ceramic Production and Trade” (OREAH) 

Burton Stein, “South India: Some General Considerations of the Region and its Early History.” In The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I, c.1200 – c.1750. Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib, editors. Cambridge University Press, 1982 pp. 14-42). (online PDF 29pp)

Viola Allegranzi, “The Medieval Urbanism of Ghazni (Afghanistan, 10th-12th Centuries). A Cross-Reading of Textual and Material Evidence,” Afghanistan, 4,1, 2021, 1-18. (PDF online)

Simon Digby, “Economic Conditions before 1200,” in The Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. I, c.1200 – c.1750. Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib, editors. Cambridge University Press, 1982, pp. 43-47). (Online PDF 5pp)

Timothy May, “Nomadic Warfare Before Firearms,” OREAH. (10pp)

 Class PPT: The Mobile Space of the Caliphates (and REF: 49 minute Video lecture.) and Southernization in the Medieval Warm Period.

Week 8. Oct 26 -28. Chinggis Khan’s Family Empire, 1162-1294. (Timeline PDF)  (timeline1) (timeline2)

Theme: Transformative Historical Conjuncture. Mongols expand across and beyond old nomad territorial domains using old techniques with innovative efficiency, building on Turkic imperial expansion.

Class PPT: The Mongol Watershed. and  Video: start watching at 6:48.

Required reading: The Mongol Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, Edited by Timothy May, ABC-CLIO, 2017, Introduction and Chronology, pp.xv-xxvii. (PDF online)

Michal Biran, “The Mongol Transformation: From the Steppe to Eurasian Empire.” (PDF), in Medieval Encounters, 10, 1-3, 2004, pp.339-61

Michal Biran, “The Mongol Empire and inter-civilizational exchange” (PDF), Chapter 20 in The Cambridge World History, pp.534-558 (Cambridge Core Link). 

Recommended and for class:

Timothy May, “Nomadic Warfare Before Firearms,” OREAH. (10pp)

Peter Golden, Central Asia in World History. (Ebook), pp.69-91.

Viewing: “The Mongol Empire and Kublai Khan,” History Channel, 47:18.  The Mongol Invasion of Japan, 1274 and 1281. (online slideshow). Mongol Invasion of Russia 

Bettine Birge, Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan Dianzhang. Harvard university Press, 2017. (Ebook) Chapter One, “Historical Context” (online PDF) 20pp

Jack Fairey and BrianP. Farrell, editors. Empire in Asia: A New Global History: Volume One, From Chinggisid to Qing. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Primary Sources: The Secret History of the Mongols. Juvaini, The History of the World-Conqueror. Rashid al Din, The Successors of Genghis Khan. 

Lawrence Krader, “Principles and Structures in the Organization of the Asiatic Steppe-Pastoralists.” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, vol. 11, no. 2, 1955, pp. 67–92. (online PDF)

Jos Gommans, “The Warband the Making of Eurasian Empires.” (PDF) Chapter 4 in Prince, Pen, and Sword: Eurasian Perspectives, edited by Maaike van Berkel and Jeroen Duindam, Brill, Leiden, 2018, pp.297-383. (JSTOR Link)

Barry Cunliffe, By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean : The Birth of Eurasia. Oxford University Press, 2017, Chapter 11, pp.415-450.

Mongols in World History (Columbia University Website). 

Pederson et al, “Pluvials, Droughts, The Mongol Empire, and Modern Mongolia.” (PDF), PNAS, 2014, 111, 12, 4375-79. 

Michael Brose, “Medieval Uyghurs from the 8th to 14th Century,” (OREAH).  

Mongol Timeline. 

Thomas Allsen, “The rise of the Mongolian empire and Mongolian rule in north China,” Cambridge History of China, Edited by H.Franke, and D.C.Twitchett, Cambridge University Press, 1994 (online 2008), pp. 321-413. (online PDF)

 Morris Rossabi, Eurasian Influences in Yuan China.

China Under Mongol Rule, edited by John D. Langlois.

Bruno, De Nicola, Bruno. “Women and Politics from the Steppes to World Empire.” Women in Mongol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335, Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pp. 34–64, (PDF online)

 

Week 9. Nov 2-4. Military Commercialism in the Integration of Afro-Eurasia (Midterm grades due)

THEME:  Commercial Space and Imperial Territory: The World of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta

Class PPT: Overview of Globalization, 1200-1850, and  Islamic Space after the Caliphates

Read: The Travels of Ibn Battuta. Berkeley ORIAS (10pp.) 

Travel MAP

The Travels of Marco Polo (1907 John Masefield Translation on the Internet Archive).

Peter Bozian, “The Role of Ortoy Merchants in the Mongolian Court: From the Rise of the Mongol Empire to the Fall of the Yuan Dynasty,” in Emory Endeavors in World History, Volume 6, 2015, pp.90-106. 

Barry Cunliffe, By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean: The Birth of Eurasia, Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 452-471

Nicola Di Cosmo, Black Sea Emporia, Journal of the Economic and
Social History of the Orient, 53, 2010, 83-108.

John Chaffee, “Cultural Transmission by Sea: Maritime Trade Routes in Yuan China” in Eurasian Influences on Yuan China, edited by Morris Rossabi, 2016, pp. 41-59

Primary Sources Ibn Battuta, Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354, Fordham University Medieval Sourcebook, and Ibn Battuta “Travels” Translation by Samuel Lee (1829)

Recommended and for class:

Virgil Ciociltan. The Mongols and the Black Sea Trade in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, Brill, 2012, (Ebook), pp.37-60.

Thomas Allsen, “Mongol Princes and their Merchant Partners 1200-1260,” (PDF), Asia Major, 3rd Series, 2, 2, 1989, 83-126 (JSTOR link). 

James A Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang, Columbia University Press, 2007. (PDF online), pp. 40-78.

Angela Schottenhammer, editor. Early Global Interconnectivity Across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I : Commercial Structures and Exchanges. Springer International Publishing, 2019, pp. 53-95. 

Tansen Sen, “The Formation of Chinese Maritime Networks to Southern Asia, 1200-1450,”  Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 49, 4, 2006, 421-453. 

Tansen Sen, “The Yuan Khanate and India: Cross-Cultural Diplomacy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries,” Asia Major, 19, 1/2, 2006, 299-326.

In the Service of the Khans: Elites in Transition in Mongol Eurasia, Edited by Michal Biran, Asiatische Studien, 71, 4, 2017, Editor’s Introduction, pp. 1051-1057 (Each chapter is a case study.)  

John Masson Smith. “Mongol and Nomadic Taxation.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 30, 1970, pp. 46–85. 

George Lane, “The Ilkhanate: Mongol Rule in Medieval Western Asia, 1256-1335,” OREAH (33pp)

“From Mongols to Safavids,” Encyclopedia Iranica.

John Masson Smith. “Mongol and Nomadic Taxation.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 30, 1970, pp. 46–85. 

The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age. Edited by Nicola Di Cosmo, A. Frank, and P. Golden, Cambridge University Press, 2009.

John Chaffee, The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018, pp.76-161.

 The Mongol Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, Edited by Timothy May, ABC-CLIO, 2017. 

Historical Dictionary of the Mongol World Empire by Paul D. Buell and Francesca Fiaschetti. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018-04-06. 

Hosung Shim, “The Postal Roads of the Great Khans in Central Asia under the Mongol-Yuan Empire,” Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 44, 2014, 405-469 (JSTOR). 

Prajakti Kalra, The Silk Road and the Political Economy of the Mongol Empire, (Ebook; University of Toronto Press, 2016). 

Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Amilcare Iannucci, Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West (Ebook University of Toronto Press, 2016). 

Michael Hope, “Bukhara under the Mongols,” (OREAH). 

The Silk Road and the cities of the Golden Horde, G. A. Fedorov-Davydov and Jeannine Davis-Kimball. Zinat Press, Berkeley 2001.  

Enerelt Enkhbold, The role of the ortoq in the Mongol Empire in forming business partnerships, Central Asian Survey, 38, 4, 2019, 531-547. 

Thomas Conlon, In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga’s Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan. East Asia Program, Cornell University 2001. (Bobst DS861.C66. 2001)

James Waterson, Defending Heaven: China’s Mongol Wars, 1209-1370. London: Frontline Books, 2013. Bobst DS731.M64.W38.2013

Bettine Birge, Marriage and the Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Cases from the Yuan Dianzhang. Harvard university Press, 2017. (Ebook) Chapter One, “Historical Context” (online PDF) 20pp. 

David Farquhar,”Structure and Function of the Yuan Imperial Government,” in China Under Mongol Rule, Edited by John. D. Langlois, Princeton, 1981.pp.24-54. 

Week 10. Nov 9-11. The Great Asian Empires

THEME: Post-Mongol Political Economy and Cultural Territory

Class PPT:  The Great Asian Empires

Read: Thomas Allsen, “Eurasia after the Mongols” and Jos Gommans, “Continuity and Change in the Indian Ocean Basin,” in The Cambridge World, edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 159-181, and 182-209.

Tansen Sen, “The Formation of Chinese Maritime Networks to Southern Asia, 1200-1450,”  Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 49, 4, 2006, 421-453. 

Richard M. Eaton, “The Persian Cosmopolis,” OREAH, 21pp.

Johan Elverskog, “Buddhist and Muslim Interaction in Asian History,” (OREAH). (10pp)

1-page paper #6 due by Thursday afternoon. This paper serves as the starting point for 5-page paper#2, due next Friday Nov. 19. Wednesday Office Hours, 12-2 by appointment.

Recommended and for Class:

Catherine B. Asher and Cynthia Talbot. India before Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ProQuest Ebook Central, .

“From Mongols to Safavids,” Encyclopedia Iranica.

Johan Elverskog, Our Great Qing : The Mongols, Buddhism, and the State in Late Imperial China. University of Hawaii Press, 2006.

Finbarr Barry Flood, “Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm, and the Museum,” The Art Bulletin , 84, 4, 2002, 641-659. (PDF online)

On Taṣawwuf in Encyclopedia of Islam. (est.5pp)

Randal L. Pouwels, “Ibn Battuta in Africa and Asia,” (OREAH) (12pp.) 

Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion, Yale University Press, 2017, pp.328-80. 

Hyunhee Park, Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds : Cross-Cultural Exchange in Pre-Modern Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2012, (Ebook), Conclusion, pp. 221-232, and optional 121-221. 

Liu Xin Ru, “A Silk road Legacy: The Spread of Buddhism and Islam,” Journal of World History, 22, 1, 2011, 55-81 (PDF online) 

Afghanistan’s Islam: From Conversion to the Taliban, Edited by Nile Green, Berkeley: U Cal Press, 2017, Open Access. JSTOR LINK. Chapters 1-5. 

Guy Burak, “The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Post-Mongol Context of the Ottoman Adoption of a School of Law,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 55, 3, 2012, 579-602. (online PDF) 

Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, “Traveling Manuscripts: Understanding Pilgrimage in Central and Eastern Islamic Lands,” in Asia Inside Out III: Itinerant People, Eric Tagliacozzo, Editor, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019, pp.146-178. (Ebook)

James Pickett, “The Darker Side of Mobility: Refugees, Hostages, and Political Prisoners in Persianate Asia,” in Asia Inside Out III: Itinerant People, Eric Tagliacozzo, Editor, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019, pp.201-223. (Ebook)

Pickett, James. Polymaths of Islam : Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia. Cornell University Press, 2020.

Andre Wink, Al-Hind, the making of the Indo-Islamic world. Volume 3, Brill, 2003, (Ebook), pp.119-169. 

Dionisius A. Agius, Classic Ships of Islam: From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean, Brill, 2007. (Ebook) 

Nile Green, Bombay Islam : The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840–1915, Cambridge University Press, 2011. (Ebook).

Thomas T. Allsen, The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Bobst NK7680.A45.2019

Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali, “Sailing across Duniyāv: Sufi Ship–Body Symbolism from the Malabar Coast, South India,” South Asian Studies, August, 2018 (online PDF)  15pp.

One-page paper#5: Write a short synopsis of 5-page paper#2, DUE NEXT WEEK. Here is the Prompt: Describe the Mongol Empire as an important part of spatial transformations in Afro-Eurasia in the six centuries of the second millennium of the Common Era, using specific examples, such as, for instance, travels of Islam. 

Week 11. Nov 16-18. No additional reading. Presentation and discussion focusing on 5-page paper #2. 5-page paper #2 due by Friday. Discussion of paper ideas in class based on feedback for 1-page paper #5.

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PART THREE. (Weeks 12-15)

Port City Networks and Commercial Militarism 

Week 12. Nov 23. (No Class on Thursday, Happy Thanksgiving!)  

THEME: European Renaissance in Afro-Eurasia: Mapping Connections, Port Cities and Coastal Environments.

Class PPT: Military Commercialism and Commercial Militarism 

Read: Thomas Asbridge, Traders and Crusaders, BBC History magazine.

Matthew Romaniello, “Transregional Trade in Early Modern Eurasia,” OREAH. (12pp) 

Tamara Bently, “Trade in the East and South China Seas.“(10pp)

Jerry Brotton, The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.33-60.

Eric Tagliacozzo, “An Urban Ocean: Notes on the Historical Evolution of Coastal Cities in Greater Southeast Asia.” Journal of Urban History, 33, 6, 2007, 911–932. (Online PDF)

Tansen Sen, “The Impact of Zheng He’s Expeditions on Indian Ocean interactions,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79, 3, 2016, 609-636. (online PDF)

Recommended: 

Giorgio Riello, Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World. Cambridge University Press, 2013. (Ebook), p.59-86.Columbia University Mongols in World History Website

Celine Dauverd, Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown. Cambridge University Press, 2014. (Here is online PDF of useful Conclusion, pp.248-261)

Social History of the Orient, 53, 2010, 83-108.

“Historical Diffusion of Paper Making,” (online PDF) Chapter 3 in Mobilities of Knowledge, edited by Heike Jöns, et al., Springer, 2017  (ebook link to chapter), pp.51-66.

Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680. Yale University Press, 1990.

Rosamund Mack, Bazar to Piazza: Islamic Trade and Italian Art, 1300-1600, Berkeley; UCal Press, 2002. 

Roxann Prazniak: The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2019. Bobst DS19.p73.2019.

Elizabeth Lambourn, “Towards a connected History of Equine Cultures in South Asia: Bahri (Sea) Horses and ’Horsemania’ in Thirteenth Century South India,” The Medieval Globe, 2, 1, 2016, in pp.57-100 (PDF online)

Levi, Scott C. The Bukharan Crisis: A Connected History of 18th Century Central Asia. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

Kenneth R. Hall, “European Southeast Asia Encounters with Islamic Expansionism, circa 1500-1700: Comparative Case Studies of Banten, Ayutthaya, and Banjarmasin in the Wider Indian Ocean Context.” Journal of World History, 25: 2,3, 2014, 229–62.

Week 13. Nov 30-Dec 2. Port City Networks and Colonial Travels Inland:

CLASS PPT: Port City Networks

Reading: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, “Empires in their Global Context, c.1500-c.1800,” Chapter 6 (19pp) in The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, edited by Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Erik R Seeman, Routledge, 2018

Peter Perdue, “The Rise and Fall of the Canton Trade System -1: China in the  World (1790s-1860s)” (5pp)

            Watch: BBC video on Opium Trade and Opium Wars 

A.C.S. Peacock, “The Ottoman Empire and the Indian Ocean,” (OREAH). (10pp)

M. van Rossum, “The Dutch East India Company and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago Worlds, 1602-1795” (OREAH). (12pp)

Tirthankar Roy, “Origins of British India.” (OREAH).  (10pp)

Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created : Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Routledge, 2017, (Ebook) Introduction, pp.1-6, and Chapter 5 “The Economics of Violence” pp.162-202

Week 14. Dec 7-9.  Pandemics of Imperial Capital Accumulation

Class PPT: Imperial Capital Accumulation

Reading: 

James L. A. Webb, “Globalization of disease, 1300 to 1900,” in The Cambridge World History, edited by Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Cambridge University Press, 2015. pp 54-75.

Sheldon Watts, “Cholera and Civilization: Great Britain and India, 1817-1920, Chapter 5, in Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History, Yale University Pres, 1997, pp.167-212.

Webpage: Opium Wars in China. The Asia-Pacific Curriculum, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada

Discussion of 5-page paper #3. Here is the prompt: Discuss the changing quality of interactions between the territorial power and authority of Great Asia Empires and expanding European mobility in Asia before 1850. You can focus on any region.  

Week 15. Dec 14. – Final Discussion. Last day Fall classes.

5-page paper #3 due by Friday