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Created on : September 30, 2016
Vladimir Putin might have annexed Crimea in March 2014, but Empress Catherine II did it first. She annexed the Crimean Khanate in 1783, inaugurating a new era in the already long relationship between Moscow and its southern neighbor.
My first book tells the story of what happened in the aftermath of annexation. It does not tell the whole story, of course: inevitably, bits - even juicy...
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Created on : September 30, 2016
This gallery contains 12 mosaics. Each mosaic contains a pair of maps produced during my analysis of the data contained in a report "on the average amount of goods hauled along the rivers of European Russia from 1859 to 1862." The report was published in the Statistical Annals of the Russian Empire in 1866.
The questions that drove me to produce these maps were...
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Created on : September 30, 2016
Though I am no expert, I am a visualization enthusiast. There is so much to learn about constructing historical arguments from the process of viz design. There is also a great deal of historical insight to be gained from learning to mine - and manipulate - data. Playing with the numbers inevitably yields different perspectives on longstanding and deeply entrenched historical narratives, but it is a form of analysis concerned less with disproving those narratives than it is with recontextualizing them.
I have tried my hand...
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Created on : September 28, 2016
My work on mapping the Russian Empire began with the transformation of a Russian atlas from a printed, material object into a digital object. You can read about the process in detail here, and you can - I...
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