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Category: Historiography

Golden Age Piracy Reconsidered

September 17, 2018 Michael Hancock-Parmer

the Caribbean in the early 1700s became the Golden Age specifically because those pirates spoke English

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Posted in: 17th Century, 18th Century, Comparative History, Cultural History, Current Events, Historiography, History, Michael's Blog, Popular History, Uncategorized

Thoughts on New World Demographics

February 8, 2018 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

…our understanding of New World “tribal society” represents not an age-old practice, but rather the recently produced consequences of massive die-offs

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Posted in: 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Comparative History, Historiography, History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Nomadism, Popular History
Wikipedia as primary source

Wikipedia & History Teaching

June 27, 2017 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

(By Michael) Introduction I want to talk about teaching history using Wikipedia, but not in the way I believe the…

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Posted in: Comparative History, Historiography, History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Popular History, Rant, Theory

Mapping other landscapes

September 13, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer

By Michael The following link redirects to my second entry in a new column hosted by the Central Eurasian Studies…

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Posted in: Cartography, Historiography, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog Filed under: maps, redirect

Traditions and Antiquity

April 18, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Traditions, in my experience, are crafted. Which is to say that they do not arise spontaneously out of the thin…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Cultural History, Historiography, History, Identity, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Rant Filed under: family, family traditions, participation

Elim-ai: An investigation

November 6, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Previously I wrote that I would use the blog for writing practice, more specifically for writing things outside the scope…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Cultural History, Historiography, Kazakh SSR, Michael's Blog, Oral History, Research, Shahkarim, Social History, Translation, Tynyshpaev

Who was Alash Khan?

August 29, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

“The legend of Alash and his three sons may be dismissed as fiction… such stories seem clearly to have been…

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Posted in: 15th Century, Historiography, History, Kalmyk, Kazakh, Michael's Blog, Oirat, Oral History, Popular History, Zunghar

After the fact

August 4, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

First, a digression: several centuries ago, the English language was quite a different beast. I love to look through the…

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Posted in: Cultural History, Historiography, History, Islamic History, Michael's Blog, Oral History, Rant, Theory Filed under: etymology, history, theory
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