Jan 25
TODAY!!! History Lefler,Scott Levi,OSU,Silk Roads,Real and Imagined
'Silk Roads, Real and Imagined'
Professor Scott Levi is a social and economic historian of early modern Central Asia in the History Department at The Ohio State University. His broad interests include Islamic, Russian and East European, and Global Early Modern History, Comparative Empires, and Religion in History.
In addition to many journal articles, book chapters and other publications, he is the author of three books:
- The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709–1876: Central Asia in the Global Age (Pittsburgh University Press, 2017);
- Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road (Penguin, 2015);
- and The Indian Diaspora in Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900 (E. J. Brill, 2002).
He also edited India and Central Asia: Commerce and Culture, 1500–1800 (Oxford University Press, 2007) and co-edited (with Ron Sela) Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Sources (Indiana University Press, 2010). His current project is 'Early Modern Connections: Global Integration and the 18th-Century Bukharan Crisis.' He is examining a number of ways that historical processes unfolded across the early modern world and contributed to the collapse of the Bukharan Khanate. Professor Levi is a recipient of the 2011 OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.
The lecture is sponsored by the History Department's Herbert P. Lefler fund, and is hosted by Professor Adeeb Khalid.
Free and open to the public. Everyone is welcome to attend!
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