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All Shook Up is the first full-length study to explore how the Soviet government and citizens responded to major disasters. Although traditional disaster studies focus on scientific aspects, All Shook Up looks at political repercussions and social opportunities that emerged after disasters. By juxtaposing the response to earthquakes in the Central Asian republics to nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine, Nigel Raab shows how Soviet citizens not only ...

This book invites upperclassmen, graduate students, and established scholars to consider the deep theoretical transformations associated with the Digital Humanities. It urges readers to see how digital tools impact our most trusted theories.

Who is the historian? What do historians do? Where do their explorations take them? What is the impact of the digital age on historical research?In an affable style, Nigel A. Raab answers these questions for those intrigued by the past. Each chapter describes a specific aspect of "doing history, " beginning in the physical spaces of archives and libraries around the globe. Readers are then introduced to the sources—texts, oral interviews, film...

The history of Russia's urban fire departments and the authoritarian elements of a growing public sphere.

In The Crisis from Within, Nigel Raab examines analytic problems which emerge when philosophical and literary theories are introduced in historical analysis. By drawing from a vast range of historical works, it highlights dangers inherent to using theory.

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