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Steven Seegel.   Mapping Europe's Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire.   Chicago   University of Chicago Press, 2012.   384 pp.   $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-74425-4. Reviewed by Denis Shaw Published on H-HistGeog (March, 2013) Commissioned by Robert J. Mayhew Hazy Borders The title of this book is unfortunate, because it is potentially ambiguous or misleading. Thus one has to ask: what is meant by "Europe's borderlands"? Surprisingly, these turn out to be not regions bordering the Urals, the Caucasus, or Anatolia, or even Great Britain, Ireland, or Scandinavia, but Poland, Ukraine, and neighboring territories. In view of the book's temporal scope, it would surely have been less misleading to refer to them not as Europe's borderlands, but as the western borderlands of the (former) Russian Empire. This relates to a broader ambiguity, which is discussed below. The book's subtitle is also misleading. Those expecting a...

Geoffrey L. Hudson.   British Military and Naval Medicine, 1600-1830. Amsterdam   Rodopi, 2007.   290 pp.   $57.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-90-420-2272-0. Reviewed by Caroline Nielsen (University of Newcastle) Published on H-Disability (March, 2013) Commissioned by Iain C. Hutchison Imperial Medicine: British Military and Naval Patients and Their Treatment, 1600-1830 Geoffrey L. Hudson's edited volume collectively examines the development of disease control and therapeutic experimentation in the British military and navy during the "long eighteenth century" (ca. 1660-1830), one of the most crucial periods of British colonial expansion. This period witnessed both a growing interest in the physical needs of an imperial state and the development of large bureaucratic institutions to manage a growing domestic and colonial population (often referred to as the British "fiscal-military state").[1] "British"   is a complex term. "Britain...

The cooperation in the history of knowledge in Berlin between the Freie Universität Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Technische Universität and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science announces (starting July 1, 2013):   Eight three-year postdoctoral fellowships.   We are looking for postdoctoral fellows who will: actively work towards the establishment of the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge; cooperate with the partner institutions in the areas of research and teaching to entrench the history of science in Berlin; and contribute their reflections on the relationships between the histories of knowledge and science. The successful candidates will be expected to strengthen the internal links between the participating institutions by organizing working groups, colloquium or workshops, in addition to pursuing their personal research projects. A workplace will be provided at one of the participating institutions. The announc...

I nternational Conference ‘The Radical Enlightenment: The Big Picture and its Details’ 16-17 May 2013 – Brussels URL = <http://www.vub.ac.be/FILO/RE2013> Outline The international conference ‘The Radical Enlightenment: The Big Picture and its Details’ seeks to bring together state-of-the-art research on the so-called ‘Radical Enlightenment’, which refers to a distinct yet multi-faceted line of thought within the Enlightenment movement that puts great emphasis on – inter alia – political reform and activism, personal freedom, social equality, and critique of religion. The objectives of this conference are: to push forward our historical and philosophical understanding of the ‘Radical Enlightenment’, to identify important figures (materialists, atheists, freethinkers, Spinozists, pantheists, freemasons, philosophes, etc.) within the Radical Enlightenment and to unravel their significance and influence, to understand the origins and spread of the Radical Enlightenme...