Monumental Empires, 1300-1800: Ottomans, Safavids, Mughals, Russia, Ming-Qing.
Theme: Productive power in Great Asian Empires lay foundations for global modernity.
Video20 with slides. “Monumental Empires and Military Commercialism.” (Slides Only)
Reading:
Scott Levi, “Asia and the Gunpowder Empires,” (OREAH)
Beatrice Manz, “Tamerlane and the Timurids” (OREAH). (12pp) Timurid Chronology
Stephen F. Dale, “The Rise of Muslim empires,” Chapter 2, in The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009, pp.48-76.
Giancarlo Casale, “The Islamic Empires of the Early Modern World,” in The Cambridge World History, Volume VI: The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, 323-344. (Online PDF)
Peter Perdue, “The Expansion of the Qing Dynasty and the Zunghar Mongol State,” (OREAH). (12pp)
Victor Lieberman, “The Qing Dynasty and Its Neighbors: Early Modern China in World History,” Social Science History, 32, 3, 2008, 281-304. (PDF online)
Willard Sunderland, Taming the Wild Field : Colonization and Empire on the Russian Steppe, Cornell University Press, 2016 (Ebook), pp.35-54.
YouTube: Taisu Zhang on the Economics of Confucianism.
16th century Ming Warfare Podcast on Ming-Ottoman military exchange
Reference:
Jack Fairey and BrianP. Farrell, editors. Empire in Asia: A New Global History: Volume One, From Chinggisid to Qing. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Khayyat and Ariel Salzmann,“On the Perils of Thinking Globally while Writing Ottoman History: God’s Shadow and Academia’s Self-Appointed Sultans,” boundary2, Oct 1, 2020.
Robert M. Hartwell, “Demographic, Political, and Social Transformations of China, 750-1550,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 42, 2, 1982, 365-442. (JSTOR link) (online PDF)
Ravi Arvind Palat, “Imperial Expansion in an Eastern Mirror: State-Making and Territorial Expansion in Asia, 1000-1700.” (PDF online) 36 pp.
Scott Levi, “Asia in the Gunpowder Revolution,” (OREAH).
The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History, edited by Paul Jakov Smith and Richard von Glahn, Harvard Asia Center 2003, (Chapters online PDF)
Victor Lieberman, “The Qing Dynasty and Its Neighbors: Early Modern China in World History,” Social Science History, 32, 2, 2008, 281-304.
Peter Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia, Harvard University Press, 2005. (Ebook).
Tansen Sen, “The impact of the Zheng He Expeditions.” Bulletin of SOAS, 79, 3, 2016, 609-636.
Walter Cohen, “Eurasian Literature,” Chapter 2 in Comparative Early Modernities, 1100-180, Edited by David Port, Palgrave, 2012, pp.47-72 (Online PDF)
John Chaffee, The Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian Trade Diaspora, 750-1400, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018, pp.162-80
Michael Fisher, “The Mughal Empire.” (OREAH). (12pp)
Alfred Rieber, “Russia in Asia” (OREAH) (12pp)
Andre Wink, “Post-Nomadic Empires: From Mongols to Mughals,” in Peter Fibiger Bang and C.A.Bayly, editors, Tributary Empires in Global History, pp.121-31
Johan Elverskog, “The Tumu Incident and Chinggisid Legacy.” The Silk Road, 15, 2016, 142-152
Richard von Glahn, “Myth and Reality of Seventeenth Century Monetary Crisis.” The Journal of Economic History, 56, 2, 1996, pp. 429-454. (JSTOR link).
Michael Khodarkovsky, Russia’s Steppe Frontier : The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800, Indiana University Press, 2002. (Ebook)
Define topics of student choice for final 5-page paper in class conversations.
Individual Weeks in full syllabus: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14