South Asia
“Evidences of Comfort and Comparative Civilization”: Teaching Industrialization and Improved Living Standards
Discussion of the effects of growing jute in Bengal on living standards
“Our Postcards of Pain”: Teaching the Anticolonial Protests of 1919
Discussion of teaching the Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) Massacre and the anticolonial protests of 1919
“The Parsis Built all these Ships without any Assistance from the English”: Indian Shipbuilding in the 1800s
Discussion of the expansion of shipbuilding in nineteenth-century Bombay
“Every Continent is Affected”: The Forty Years’ War and Decolonizing How We Teach the World Wars
Discussion of teaching the world wars from a global perspective
“They All Must Have Opium”: The Diversity of the British Opium Trade
Discussion of Teaching Indian Opium Production
“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade
Discussion of teaching the nineteenth-century opium trade
“Living Between Worlds”: Global Migration Since 1960
Discussion of teaching contemporary global migration
“One May Be a Qadi, a Mullah, or a Sheikh, a Yogi”: Teaching the Origins of Sikhism
Discussion of teaching the historical context of Sikhism
“Erect Lofty Buildings”: Monumental Architecture and Imperial Legitimacy in the Mughal Empire
Discussion of Akbar using monumental architecture to legitimize his rule
“A Complete History of the American War”: A Global Approach to Teaching the American Revolution
A discussion of teaching the American Revolution from a global perspective
