Garden of the Empire: Catherine's Appropriation of the Crimea

In this paper, we study the Empire Problem, a generalization of the coloring problem to maps on two-dimensional compact surface whose genus is positive. Given a planar graph with a certain partition of the vertices into blocks of size r, for a given integer r, the problem consists of deciding if s colors are sufficient to color the vertices of the graph such that vertices of the same block have...

We have read with very great interest this little book published bj7 Mr. W. H. S. Jones, with added chapters by Major R. Ross, F.R.S., C.B., and Dr. C. G. Ellett * The chief author, Mr. Jones, is a classical scholar of distinction, and his views are, therefore, entitled to respect. We may agree with much of what Major Ross says in the introductory chapter that widespread disease is an important...

Studying the suicide in the Byzantine Empire is difficult due to the limited number of references to it. Their number is greater in the early years of the Empire, mainly because of the persecution of Christians and gradually decreases. The attitude of the Church also gradually hardens, as well as the law. The law was strictly followed to the West, but as far as the Eastern Empire is concerned t...

This paper will examine the cultural paradox of modern Japan, focusing on the views of civilization and Otherness during the period of the Great Japanese Empire (1868-1945). I will look at modern Japanese views of civilization and how these views reflected modern Japan’s perceptions of its major Others: the West, China and the South Seas.2 The reason I write in terms of the “paradox” of modern ...

How will the robot age transform warfare? What geopolitical futures are being imagined by the US military? This article constructs a robotic futurology to examine these crucial questions. Its central concern is how robots - driven by leaps in artificial intelligence and swarming - are rewiring the spaces and logics of US empire, warfare, and geopolitics. The article begins by building a more-th...

Although many studies have associated the demise of complex societies with deteriorating climate, few have investigated the connection between an ameliorating environment, surplus resources, energy, and the rise of empires. The 13th-century Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire in world history. Although drought has been proposed as one factor that spurred these conquests, no hig...

Abstract The Habsburg monarchy seems doubly confounding. Its historians call it an empire, but actually never called itself that. For a fraction of its existence (1804–67), the counted as Kaisertum, word meant to burnish fading glory lost imperial title (of Holy Roman Empire). But rulers evinced self-confident aggressiveness or desire exploit distant territories that characterized British Russi...

The White Author’s Burden: Justifications of Empire in the Fiction of British India identifies a transformation in Anglo-Indian literature by exploring various fictional works (including novels, short stories, and poems) written by British authors between 1800 and 1924. Before 1857 (the year of the widespread Indian Rebellions that challenged British rule), Anglo-Indian literature focused exclu...