by David Ludden | Jun 17, 2025 | Courses
Pandemic World History Draft 1 Oct 2023 J-Term Schedule 2024 Faculty arrive: January 2, 2024 (Tuesday) Required Faculty Orientation: January 3, 2024 (Wednesday) Classes start: January 4, 2024...
by David Ludden | Jun 17, 2025 | Global Asia Blog
Roman Empire Indian Ocean Connections to Asian Trade: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea Turkic Migrations (550-1200). In 552 a powerful new Turkic confederacy developed in the Altai Mountains. It spread from China to the Caspian Sea, pushing Bulgarian and Slav nomad...
by David Ludden | Jun 17, 2025 | Global Asia Blog
On “colonialism versus empire” as frames for modern South Asian History. “Colonialism” literally refers to an ideology or process of producing and maintaining colonies; it seems to be applied exclusively to European colonies, going back to...
by David Ludden | Jun 17, 2025 | Global Asia Blog, Hot Topics
AI is a tool inside capitalism to replace human labor with machinery. Using it and trying to control it politically is part of our struggle to survive/thrive in the context of increasing control of our world by investors in capital accumulation. Keeping that reality...
by David Ludden | Jun 11, 2025 | Global Asia Blog
The colonization of World History began when Europeans carried their own peculiar forms of historical knowledge production deep into all the continents. Colonized History thus developed so as to privilege Europe, its colonies, and their relations with “others.”...
