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Category: Popular History

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

Revisionist Hunnic History

February 27, 2018 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Attila the Hun never invaded modern-day France

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Posted in: Ancient, Huns, Michael's Blog, Military History, Mongols, Nomadism, Pedagogy, Popular History, Research

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

Why are you studying the Kazakhs?

October 5, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

“Why are you studying the history of the Kazakhs?” I have heard this question many times and it deserves a…

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Posted in: Comparative History, Cultural History, History, Michael's Blog, Popular History, Research, Theory, Writing

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

Histories and Stories

July 27, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

I’m hoping to share more translations, but in the meantime I wanted to put together some words to articulate an…

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Posted in: 18th Century, 20th Century, Cultural History, History, Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog, Poetry, Popular History, Theory Filed under: history, theory
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