• MONDAY: LIVE ON ZOOM. 
  • 1. Introductions, instructor and students.
  • 2. Go over the Syllabus and Website. 
  • 3. Plans for Wednesday
  • 4. Thing to do: Getting Ready for Online Course Work.
    • Make a Google Doc Folder for all your course work
      • Share it with me. del5@nyu.edu
    • Open a GOOGLE EARTH PROJECT account for yourself.
      • You can share individual projects via your Google Doc folder.
      • HERE IS A LINK to a project that we can do together.
    • If you have questions for me to address, please write them into this GoogleDoc, which will be cumulative for the whole semester. 
      • I can write responses to questions here too. (You will post your own writing in your own Course GoogleDoc folder and share it with me.)
    • USE THIS GOOGLEDOC to record links to additional online resources you find useful for this class.
    • You will find Zotero useful for organizing bibliography.
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    • SLIDES shared in the zoom videos are available in this GoogleDrive Folder.  Here is the link to the slides for Weeks1-2, Videos 1-5.
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    • FOR COMPLETE syllabus with additional reading and reference material, click here.
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    • Just for fun: add illustrative sites and material to the GoogleEarth Project, “Environments in Monsoon Asia.”‘

• WEDNESDAY: Asynchronous Meeting. 
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  • BEFORE WATCHING THE ZOOM RECORDINGS
  • please READ: David Ludden, Peasant History in South India, Princeton University Press, 1985 (ACLS ebook), Conclusion. pp.200-220. and “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 Premodern Inner 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).
• Zoom Recordings for Week1.
  • FOR ALL ZOOM RECORDINGS: you must be signed into NYU ZOOM in order to view.
  • Kevin O’Rourke, History in the Headlines Lecture, 8 Sept 2020. on Globalization
  • WEEK1. VIDEO1: “Global Asia and Spatial History.”
  • WEEK1. VIDEO2: “Environments: Monsoon Asia.”
• There is no response paper for this week. You can post questions or thoughts in the Q&A GoogleDoc.

Link to WEEK2 schedule

Individual Weeks in full syllabus: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14