By Michael Keyes - Articles published in Three Monkeys Online
Wilderness, past and present.
From Plato to Joni Mitchell, by way of Thoreau and Malthus, Michael Keyes takes a look at the construct of Wilderness, past and present....
The Congo Free State - a colony of gross excess.
History has tended to judge the Congo Free State, established by Leopold III of Belgium, as an exception to the rule in the colonisation of Africa, being little more than a slave state. Michael Keyes argues that rather than being an exception, it was a le...
Restoration and Invention: The role of language in the invention of the Irish and Norwegian Nations.
For 19th and 20th century nationalists, both in Norway and in Ireland, the relationship between language and national identity was a crucial one. Michael Keyes examines the changing relationship between nationalism and the national l...
Mapping the past - the Historian's dilemma.
'Before you study the history, study the historian', said E.H.Carr, illuminating the dilemma of the Historian. Michael Keyes charts the changes in the role of the Historian as determined by the changes in the wider society over the centuries. ...
