Global History Podcast. Exploring cross-cultural encounters in the early modern world
The Global History Podcast is an educational show designed for students, teachers, and anyone interested in the early modern world. We are dedicated to sharing histories both early modern and global, from approximately the 16th to the early 19th centuries. The podcast will explore various themes in global history, focusing on the networks of people, trade, ideas, and commodities that connected distant continents in the age of sail. The stories we want to tell here speak to the meeting of worlds – a Baroque opera sung in a Mesoamerican dialect, a Christian figurine sculpted to look like a Chinese goddess, a geographical treatise informed by both European humanism and Malay legends – the cross-cultural encounters that shaped early modernity.[...]