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Who decides who’s Racist?

August 20, 2019 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

When I was in High School I read a book called Only Begotten Daughter, a work of speculative fiction published…

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Posted in: 20th Century, 21st Century, Cultural History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Modernity, Nationalism, Rant, Theory, Writing
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

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

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

Retreats, Losses, and Failed Resistances

July 4, 2014 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

The history of the Republic of Kazakhstan is one born of the history of the Soviet Union, itself one steeped…

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Posted in: Kazakh, Michael's Blog, Military History, Oirat, Research, Theory

Teaching History With Our Own Past

August 1, 2013 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Here’s a thought – let’s use the family as a model for teaching history. I’m speaking as a citizen of…

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Posted in: Cultural History, Family, History, Michael's Blog, Military History, Social History, Theory

Rhetoric and National History

July 30, 2013 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

National history stumbles when it perceives its subject as a population defined by membership in a specific group to the…

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Posted in: Kazakh, Michael's Blog, Nomadism, Soviet History, Theory

Confusing Social and Cultural History

Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

I’ve nearly finished my preparations for the PhD qualifying exams in Russian History. My dissertation proposal is, I believe, about…

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Posted in: Marxism, Michael's Blog, Theory

Nomadism

March 6, 2013 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

In this post I will offer a few lighthearted challenges some common concepts and ideologies that I have encountered during…

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Posted in: Kazakh, Kazakh SSR, Michael's Blog, Nomadism, Theory

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