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ROADS OF SILK, STREETS OF
WATER
Pre-Modern Eurasian Trade and Culture
J.L. WelshNEH Summer InstituteUH Manoa 2010
Purpose of Course
Trade and Cultural Exchange
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.
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.
Structural Outline
Geographic Abu-Lughod Discussion of China Discussion of Southeast
Asian routes Thematic
Silk and textiles Porcelain Spices
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