wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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The Crisis from Within: Historians, Theory, and the Humanities
ISBN: 9789004290761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In The Crisis from Within, Nigel Raab explores weaknesses that emerge when using interdisciplinary theories in historical analysis. With chapters that focus on knowledge, language, memory, imagining and inventing, and civil society, the analysis reveals how theoretical applications can be the source of interpretive confusion. By drawing from a global range of historical works, Nigel Raab demonstrates how this problem concerns all historical sub-fields. From science in the seventeenth century to communism in the twentieth century, theories often overdetermine analysis in a way the...
In The Crisis from Within, Nigel Raab explores weaknesses that emerge when using interdisciplinary theories in historical analysis. With chapte...
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531,17 |
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Democracy Burning? : Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914
ISBN: 9780773537798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Nineteenth-century commentators often claimed that Russia burned to the ground every thirty years. In an empire whose cities were built of wood, firefighters had a visible presence throughout Russia's urban centres and became politically active across the country. Democracy Burning? studies the political, cultural, and social values of volunteer firefighters and reveals the ways in which their public organizations cooperated with the authoritarian state.
Nineteenth-century commentators often claimed that Russia burned to the ground every thirty years. In an empire whose cities were built of wood, firef...
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489,77 |
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All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917-1991
ISBN: 9780773550025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and floods were among the many unexpected tragedies that struck the Soviet Union over its history. Requiring the immediate mobilization of vast resources and aid, and embedded within a specific context and time, these catastrophes provide critical insights into the nature of the twentieth-century Communist state. All Shook Up takes a close look at the representation in film, the political repercussions, and the social opportunities of large-scale catastrophes in separate Soviet epochs, including the 1927 earthquake in the Crimean peninsula, the 1948 earthquake...
Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and floods were among the many unexpected tragedies that struck the Soviet Union over its history. Requiring the immed...
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181,22 |
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The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism Into the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780367896799 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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759,15 |
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Who Is the Historian?
ISBN: 9781442635722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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, films, and objects--which historians interpret. Raab points out that historians do not work alone with their materials; rather, archivists,... 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? |
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83,21 |
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All Shook Up: The Shifting Soviet Response to Catastrophes, 1917-1991
ISBN: 9781644695821 / Rosyjski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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149,46 |
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The Humanities in Transition from Postmodernism into the Digital Age
ISBN: 9780367520397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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225,25 |