Four Days that Shook the World: Earthquakes and Empire Along the Eurasian Frontier
Welcome to a guest lecture by professor Douglas Northrop. He uses several major earthquakes, with all their consequences, to gain a fresh perspective on the Russo-Soviet empire.
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The Environmental Humanities Research Group invites you to a lecture by Douglas Northrop, Professor of World History and Central Asian History at the University of Michigan.
This talk uses the framework of seismic catastrophe to gain new insight into the modern history of Central Eurasia.
Concentrating on four major temblors over the last two centuries, it tells the history of earthquakes and empire, particularly along the frontiers of a Russian (later Soviet) state-in-the-making.
This set of cataclysmic events, largely overlooked or forgotten by historians, serves as the spine for a new, sweeping history of empire, one that brings together key themes of colonial, environmental, cultural, and urban history.
Anyone interested is welcome!
