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Roads of Silk, Streets of Water

Roads of Silk, Streets of Water. Pre-Modern Eurasian Trade and Culture. J.L. Welsh NEH Summer Institute UH Manoa 2010. Purpose of Course. Trade and Cultural Exchange. Main Texts.

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Roads of Silk, Streets of Water

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  1. Roads of Silk, Streets of Water Pre-Modern Eurasian Trade and Culture J.L. Welsh NEH Summer Institute UH Manoa 2010

  2. Purpose of Course

  3. Trade and Cultural Exchange

  4. Main Texts • Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. • Allsen, Thomas T. Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. • Finlay, Robert. The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2010. • Freedman, Paul. Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008.

  5. Why Start with Abu-Lughod? • Introduce concept of “World Systems” • Give students larger overview of geography, cultures, and the movement of goods between East and West • Provide theories students can later re-evaluate in light of other readings and their own research.

  6. Structural Outline • Geographic • Abu-Lughod • Discussion of China • Discussion of Southeast Asian routes • Thematic • Silk and textiles • Porcelain • Spices

  7. Assignments • Discussion questions for in-class use • Short response papers on specific themes or primary materials • Primary-source focused short paper • In-class presentation focused on specific commodity • Research paper

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