Ottoman Empire
“Such a State is Bound to Disappear”: The Middle East in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching the Middle East during the World Wars
“Freedom of Trade in Opium”: Teaching Opium Production and Trade in the Late Nineteenth Century
Discussion of late nineteenth-century opium economy in Anatolia, Persia, and Southeast Asia
“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade
Discussion of teaching the nineteenth-century opium trade
“Longing for their Homes”: The Middle Passage and the Development of Modern Migration, 1700 to 1830
Discussion of teaching the Middle Passage as the start of modern migration
“Frequently Invaded Iran”: Relations between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires
Discussion of teaching the Ottomans & Safavids in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
“The Tax Officials are to Pay Installments”: Ottoman Tax Farming in the Fifteenth Century
Discussion of teaching tax farming
Visualizing the Increased Use of Gunpowder
Teaching the use of gunpowder using paintings
“The Earth Was Covered in Snow”: China and the Middle East in the Seventeenth Century
Discussion of teaching the Little Ice Age in the Chinese and Ottoman Empires
“We Are All Poor Nowadays”: From Ottoman Palestine to British Mandatory Palestine, 1914-1920
Discussion of teaching the experiences of Palestinians and Israelis during the First World War
“Study and Understand the Psyche of Our Neighbors”: Palestinian and Zionist Exchanges, 1899-1914
Discussion of teaching Palestinian and Zionist encounters at the beginning of the twentieth century
