Southeast Asia
“Conscious of Myself as a Kenya African”: The Effect of the Second World War on Colonial African Soldiers
Discussion of how the Second World affected African soldiers fighting in Asia.
“The Outbreak of the Present War”: Decolonization During and After the Second World War
Discussion of teaching decolonization’s connections to the Second World War and the Cold War
“The World Will Be Reconstructed”: Four Visions of Anticolonialism in 1920
Discussion of how to teach the various anticolonial strategies of 1920.
“Organizing the Rice Fields”: Teaching Southeast Asia’s Nineteenth-Century Production Revolution
Discussion of how to teach Southeast Asia’s economic changes in the nineteenth century
“Being Deeply Concerned with Agriculture”: The Spread of Champa Rice, and some surprises
Discussion of how to use different sources to teach the spread of Champa rice
Monthly Digest: July 2023
Monthly Digest for July 2023.
“The Number of Chinese Appears to be Very Considerable”: The Chinese Diaspora in Southeast in the Early Nineteenth Century
A discussion of how to teach Chinese migration to Southeast Asia in the early nineteenth century
“Filled with Various Races”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Long Nineteenth Century
A discussion of how to teach the Indian Ocean exchange network in the nineteenth century.
“Chinese Came In Droves”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
A discussion of teaching the Indian Ocean exchange network in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
“The Unspun Thread for the Message of Allah”: The Indian Ocean Exchange Network in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
A discussion of teaching the Indian Ocean exchange network in the sixteenth century.
