Teaching the Silk Road -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Weaving with Silk: Using the Silk Roads to Organize World History Surveys Before 1500 -- Chapter 2. How to Use the Silk Roads in the European History Survey Course -- Chapter 3. The Silk Road and Chinese Identity, Past and Present -- Chapter 4. Silk Roads Studies in the Political Science Classroom -- Chapter 5. Teaching the Silk Road in Comparative Politics -- Chapter 6. Art and the Silk Road -- Chapter 7. Incorporating Nomads into the Curriculum, One Steppe at a Time -- Chapter 8. Philosophical Reflections on National Idenity -- Chapter 9. Silk Roads, Service Learning, and Mythmaking -- Chapter 10. Taking Students along China's Silk Road -- Chapter 11. Mapping the Silk Road -- Chapter 12. Using Primary Sources to Teach the Silk Road -- Chapter 13. Flashes at the End of the Sky- My Personal Khotan on the Silk Road -- About the Authors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.