Week 1： January 14 & 16

Lecture 1. Central Eurasia and World History

• Golden, Central Asia in World History, Introduction and Chapter 1 (1-20) (on Canvas, but also an assigned book to acquire)
• Christian, David. “Inner Eurasia as a Unit of World History.”

Further reading:

Sinor, ed. The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia (Introduction and Chapter 2).

Frank, Andre Gunder. The Centrality of Central Asia. (for next week as well, get main arguments and style of argumentation)