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The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire

Featuring Dominique Reill, University of Miami & respondent Malgorzata Mazurek, Columbia University. If you are interested in attending, please email Jamie Nadel at jbn2117@columbia.edu and you will be sent a Zoom link and password. This event is part of the European History & Politics Workshop series, which is supported by the European Institute and the Department of History at Columbia University.

A “Complete” Atlas of the Russian Empire (with Catherine Evtuhov)

Utility (pol’za) was a watchword of Empress Elizabeth’s reign (1741-61). The 1745 Atlas of the Russian Empire, published in nineteen regional maps and a general map of the empire, was presented in this spirit. The atlas united “geographical rules” and “new observations” to create a complete picture of the All-Russian Empire and contiguous lands. The visual and the imperial intersect…