nigel raab

Who is the Historian? is now available from the University of Toronto Press: http://utpblog.utpress.utoronto.ca/2016/01/06/who-is-the-historian/Who is the Historian? See the video at: http://tvo.org/video/programs/the-agenda-with-steve-paikin/who-is-the-historian The Crisis from Within: Historians, Theory, and the Humanities is now available from Brill: http://www.brill.com/products/book/crisis-within-historians-theory-and-humanities Nigel is also the author of Democracy Burning? Urban Fire Departments and the Limits of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia, 1850-1914 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010): http://www.mqup.ca/democracy-burning--products-9780773537798.php?page_id=73& Specialties: Nigel focuses on Russian and Soviet history, theories of civil society, natural disasters, and walking in urban environments.