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Maps Teaching History

July 25, 2019 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

I love maps. I love writing about them. I love rescuing them. I love reading about them on the internet. I also teach with them.

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Posted in: Cartography, Comparative History, History, Michael's Blog, Pedagogy

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
Amphitheater in Ephesus (Efes), Turkey

Genetics & Identity: My concerns

January 17, 2017 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

By Michael Following an introduction to the idea that we actually have no genetic relationship with many of our direct…

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Posted in: History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Rant

The Renat Maps

August 24, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

The following link redirects to my first entry in a new column hosted by the Central Eurasian Studies Society. The…

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Posted in: 18th Century, Cartography, Eurasia, History, Jungar, Michael's Blog Filed under: history, Kazakhstan, maps, redirect, Uzbekistan
Seth Taras, Know Where You Stand

Tense Decisions

June 15, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer 1 Comment

By Michael Writing is very difficult. Writing will be very difficult. Writing has been very difficult. The English language allows…

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Posted in: dissertation, History, Michael's Blog, Writing

Dissertation Writing

June 11, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Maintaining concentration is a problem on more than one level when writing my dissertation. I cannot know how widely spread…

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Posted in: dissertation, History, Michael's Blog Filed under: history, writing

J. G. Renat – Swedish Superhero

April 27, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Johan Gustaf Renat (1682-1744) was an amazing historical figure, a Swedish man with an uncanny skill for survival in strange…

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Posted in: 18th Century, Cartography, Eurasia, History, Jungar, Michael's Blog, Sweden Filed under: history, Kazakhstan

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

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