Empire, Spectacle and the Patriot King: British Responses to the Eighteenth-Century Russian Empire

The British Empire Exhibition

The tropics and the rise of the British Empire: Mungo Park's perspective on Africa in the late eighteenth century.

The young Scottish physician Mungo Park, aged 23, arrived in Africa in 1795 with a mission as specific as it was complex in those bygone days, namely to travel the entire length of the River Niger. In 1799, the story of this journey was published in a book that sold 1500 copies in the first month alone, with two further editions published that same year, as well as the translation of the work i...

Mines and Minerals of the British Empire

This is a description of the historical, physical and industrial features of the principal centres of mineral productions in the British Dominions beyond the seas, by Mr. R. Stokes, the late Mining Editor of the Rancl Daily Neivs of Johannesburg. It is a brief but comprehensive review of the mineral treasures of the British Empire. It is worthy of notice that the following important minerals ar...

pital) from the MedicalResearchCouncil and the British Empire Cancer

In an attempt to obtain a source of material for chemi cal studies, the binding of 7,1 2-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) was studied in E. coli, B. subtilis, and ascites tumor cells. For the bacteria a dose-dependent binding was found, but the level of binding was low. In the case of the ascites tumor cells in the mouse, binding of DMBA to DNA, RNA, and protein showed a dependence on time afte...

Textual Dualism and Augmented Reality in the Russian Empire

While the current focus on how digital technology alters our conception of the self and its place in the broader perceived reality yields fascinating insight into modern issues, there is much to be gained by analyzing the presence of dualist and augmented reality discourses in a pre-digital era. This essay will examine the ontological interplay of textual dualist norms in the Russian and Soviet...