1. Pre-Modern Eurasian Trade and Culture J.L. Welsh NEH Summer Institute UH Manoa 2010

4.  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.

5.  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.

6.  Geographic  Abu-Lughod  Discussion of China  Discussion of Southeast Asian routes  Thematic  Silk and textiles  Porcelain  Spices

7.  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