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H102 World histories: the view from Africa and Asia 2020/21
Announcements
Module Forum
Feedback on E-module provision - open til Oct 26
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EX1 August 2021 submission
Zoom class links - Term 1
Zoom link for lectures 10-11 on Weds
Zoom link for Tutorial 1 Wed. 9-10
Zoom link for Tutorial 2, password 755818aB12 Wed. 3-4pm
Zoom link for Tutorial 3 Wed. 4pm
Course documents
HRP Netiquette Sept 2020
HRP Plagiarism statement 2020
H102 syllabus 2020-2021 including assignment details.docx
H102 World histories As2 essay titles
H102 World histories As2 essay workshop
Rubric and guidance for assessed work
Marking guidelines for UG history essays
Colonialism - sample terminology exercise
H102 terminology exercise 2019
1. Introduction - time and the history of the world
Lecture forum
Lecture 1: Introduction - H102.1.1
Lecture 2 Time H102.1.2
Lecture 3 histories H102 1 3
2. 300,000 BP to 4,000 BC: Before Cities
How to Change the Course of History
Lecture Forum
Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3- warning 34 mins!
2. H102 lecture 2.1
Task for week 3
Natural Earth Projection
Formative Assignment
3. Cities, territorial states and empires
Reading: Rethinking Cities Forum
Lecture Forum
Lecture 1: Cities
Lecture 2: Territorial States and Empires - a bit long, sorry
Trade
Tutorial group 1
Lectures Discussion session
Tutorial Group 2
Tutorial Group 3
3. H102 lecture 3
4. The spread of writing: 3300 BC - 900 AD
Reading Forum: Haicheng Wang
Wang 2014-conclusion
Lecture Forum
Lecture 1-Writing Systems
Lecture 2 - Writing and the state 1
Lecture 3-Writing and the state 2
4. H102 lectures week 4
Something else to watch if you want: BBC Secret History of Writing series
Tutorial 1
Lecture Discussion
Tutorial 2
Tutorial 3
5. Ancient religious life: from the collective to the individual?
Reading Forum: Bellah
Bellah-Axial Age (2005)
Lecture forum
Lecture 1-Collective Religion
Lecture 2-Axial Age?
Lecture 3-Empire, Trade and Universalism
5. H102 lecture 5
Week 5 Tutorial 1-passcode: 328t&rRi
Lecture Discussion Wk 5
Tutorial 2 wk 5 passcode: m^d7+jXj
Wk 5 Tutorial 3 passcode: 8XLenF$2
6. The global spread of Islam
Reading Forum - Kennedy "Islam"
Lecture Forum
Optional background reading: C. Beckwith: "Empires of the Silk Road" (SOAS library e-book) -introducing the idea of "greater Eurasia"
Optional background reading: 2 short primary sources on the pre-Islamic Arabs
Week 6-8 "Guerilla reading list": Beyond the Islamic World
Week 6 - lecture script
Week 6 - lecture slides
Week 6 - lecture - intro
Week 6 lecture- part 1
Week 6 lecture - part 2
Week 6 lecture- part 3
Lecture recording wk 6: Passcode: c6iJT^q7
9am tutorial group recording - Passcode: WG=0wnY0
Recording of Tutorial 2, 3pm - Passcode: 26fa$&8r
Recording Tutorial 3, 4pm - Passcode: ?13w@gG*
7. Culture in a non-dark age: courtly culture, literature and the arts in the 'Golden Age of Islam'
Reading Forum - Hodgson
Lecture Forum
Tutorial reading (primary source): Selections from the works of al-Jahiz, an 'Abbasid-era scholar and polymath
Week 7 lecture part 1
Week 7 lecture part 2
Week 7 - lecture script
Week 7 - lecture slides
Optional background listening: The Battle of Talas (BBC In Our Time)
Optional background listening: Professor Hugh Kennedy (SOAS) talks about the history of the Caliphate (Ottoman History Podcast)
Lecture Discussion session wk 7 - Passcode: 46$&$3FJ
Tutorial 1, 9-10- Passcode: 5$.R@QH4
Tutorial 2, 3-4
Tutorial 3, 4-5
8. Globe-trotting with Ibn Battuta: religious and cultural exchange in an earlier age of globalisation
Additional primary sources on Africa: Francois-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar: "The Golden Rhinoceros" (SOAS Library e-book)
Reading Forum - Ibn Battuta
Lecture Forum
Session 8 - lecture - part 1
Session 8 - lecture - part 2
Session 8 - lecture - part 3
week 8 tutorial 1: Passcode: bad1^Wpw
Week 8 Lecture discussion - Passcode: c?8zd&Qv
Week 8 tutorial 2, 3-4pm - Passcode: 4k!2VG5$
Week 8 Tutorial 3: Passcode: c6!%43+1
9. Atlantic encounters and exchanges
Reading Forum - Sandberg
Lecture Forum
H102 W9 L1
H102 W9 L3
H102 W9 L2
Recording week 9 tutorial 1 - Passcode: 5y8x=JnN
Lecture session week 9 - Passcode: F8gCjN?B
Recording tutorial 2 week 9 - Passcode: ZF8x$i1x
10. The seventeenth-century global crisis and climate
Lecture Forum
Reading Forum - Parker - Spence.
H102 week 10 17th century global crisis 1
H102 week 10 17th century global crisis 2
H102 week 10 17th century global crisis 3
Global Crisis - Pt.1
Global Crisis - Pt.2
Global Crisis - Pt.3
Tutorial 2, 3pm - Passcode: .@u$4HT6
Tutorial 3, 4pm - Passcode: 0^ewy=de
11. Eurasia's early modern (agrarian) empires
Lecture Forum
Reading forum - Casale and Subrahmanyam
H102 W11 Eurasia Early Modern L1
H102 W11 Eurasia Early Modern L2
H102 W11 Eurasia Early Modern L3
H102 W11 L2
H102 W11 L1
H102 W11 L3
H102 terminology exercise
Tutorial group 1 - Jamboard
12. Oceanic worlds
Lecture Forum
Reading forum - Vink
H102 W12 L1 Indian Ocean
H102 W12 L2 Portuguese in Asia
H102 W12 L3 VOC and EIC
H102 W12 L3
H102 W12 L1
H102 W12 L2
Wigen, Cartographies of Connection
indian-ocean-studies-and-the-new-thalassology
ahr.111.3.717
13. Movement, communications and cultures of consumption
H102 W13 L1 Commodities and Consumption
H102 W13 L2 Consumption and Sociabilities
H102 W13 L3 Commodity and Movement of People
H102 W13 L2
H102 W13 L1
H102 W13 L3
Emami-COFFEE HOUSES, URBAN SPACES, AND THE FORMATION OF A PUBLIC SPHERE IN SAFAVID ISFAHAN
Karababa-Ger Early Modern Ottoman Coffeehouse Culture and the Formation of the Consumer Subject
Grehan-Smoking and Early Modern Sociability- The Great Tobacco Debate in the Ottoman Middle East Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Matthee-Coffee in Safavid Iran- Commerce and Consumption
14. 'Enlightenment' and 'revolution'
The first age of global imperialism c 1760 1830
Horne Haitian Revolution and the central question of African American History
H102 History of the World - Lecture 14 notes
14. H102 Enlightenment and Revolution
14. Enlightenment and revolution lecture forum
14. Enlightenment and revolution reading forum
Primary sources for Revolution and Enlightenment
15. Industry and empire: the Great Divergence
15. Industry and Empire 2021
15. H102 Industry and Empire - the Great Divergence
15. Industry and empire lecture forum
Parthasarathi The Great Divergence
15. Industry and empire reading forum
16. Formalising social difference - race, class, gender, caste and tribe
Ghosh Who counts as native
16. H102 Formalising social difference
16. Formalising social difference – gender, race, class, caste and tribe
16. Formalising social difference lecture forum
16. Formalising social difference - reading forum
17. Modern imperialism
Imperialism and Colonialism in Comparative Perspective
17. H102 Modern Imperialism
H102 17. Modern Imperialism
17. Modern Imperialism - lecture forum
17. Modern imperialsim - Adas essay - reading forum
18. 'World' War and 'World' Depression: the emergence of a new international order
Adas - Contested Hegemony
Sinha Third British Empire
Week 18 - International Order - lecture forum
Week 18 - international order - reading forum - Sinha essay
18. H102 World War and World Depression
18. World War and World Depression- the emergence of a new international order 2021
19. Decolonisation and the post-war world
Empire and Globalisation from High Imperialism to Decolonisation
JWH McCann 2019 accepted MS
Presentation Slides
Recorded lecture
The imperialism of decolonization-1
week 19 decolonisation dates
Week 19 lecture forum
Week 19 - reading forum - McCann
20. Histories of the world in a post-colonial age?
20. Lecture forum
20. Stearns reading forum
20. Histories of the world in a post-colonial age 2021
Revision
H102-Exam-Mock-Paper
H102 Sept exam 2018 2019
H102 May exam 2018 2019
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