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I enjoyed this short podcast on the meaning of "Asia." Worthwhile of folks who #TeachWorldHistory or geography. #sschat #iteachsocialstudies www.historians.org/podcast/big-...

Big Asia

Wilson extends his argument about the precariousness of British power in India to the railroad era:

"The decades that straddled the great Indian rebellion of 1857 saw the emergence of a new kind of British power in India, based not on violence against people but the capacity to shape the physical environment of the subcontinent. These were years when men like James Berkley and George Clark were given large amounts of money to spend on public works. They saw the construction of irrigation canals and dams, telegraph lines, roads and eventually railways, all attempts to impose British authority on Indian rock and soil with brick, stone and steel. Later imperial bureaucrats and historians suggested this kind of geological imperialism was driven by the effort to improve a society they believed was backward. Others see it as part of the integration of India into global markets, to create what the historian John Darwin calls ‘the British World-System’. In fact, it began as little more than the limited British attempt to shore up their shaky grip on power." #TeachWorldHistory

(p. 268) Kindle Edition.

(comment on Chaos of Empire, p. 268)

Hi @teachworldhistory friends. It’s another new week. I thought we could tackle the problem of balancing skills and content. What questions, techniques or ideas do you have? #TeachWorldHistory #Teaching #history

Hi @teachworldhistory friends! We’re going to keep with last week’s question building a reading list of histories that focus on non-western history after 1500 and decenter western perspectives. #TeachWorldHistory #WorldHistory

Good morning to @teachworldhistory! This week folks seem to be interested in building a reading list of histories that focus on non-western history after 1500 and decenter western perspectives. So, what can we recommend to the community? #TeachWorldHistory #WorldHistory

Hi #TeachWorldHistory friends! We’ll be back next week. Please be sure to send in ideas for discussion topics here: http://www.tinyurl.com/TeachWorldHistory

Hi friends! Just a pause on #TeachWorldHistory this week. We’ll be back next week. Please send in topic suggestions here: http://tinyurl.com/TeachWorldHistory

My women’s history and fashion history classes are WH in scope. Each class is centered around a topic and then a different 15 minute-ish chunk looks at the topic from a specific perspective. I also keep a detailed spreadsheet to track the readings that I assign to ensure that I’m assigning work that is from a wide range of historians. #TeachWorldHistory @teachworldhistory

@amyelizabeth @teachworldhistory I balance my content geographically but I stress connections between places (migrations, Silk Road, Crusades, Pacific wayfinders etc.) to break down the notions that regions are really separate. I find my 7th graders have little familiarity with American or European history at all, so it's all basically new to them. #TeachWorldHistory

@teachworldhistory week 3 is upon us! If you’re new, #TeachWorldHistory is a weekly that mulls over 1 question about teaching #worldhistory from grade 7 through uni level. Submit a question/topic http://tinyurl.com/TeachWorldHistory
This week we’re talking about balancing content. How do you currently balance content in your World #History survey courses?
More specifically, how much do we include Europe or the US as anchors to contextualize the histories already familiar to them?

Hey @teachworldhistory let’s do a quick thread of all the places where we get our #primary sources. I’ll start! #teachworldhistory

Hi all! It’s #TeachWorldHistory week 2! We’re discussing best practices with primary sources. How do you help students connect with and understand primary sources? @teachworldhistory @histodons