A review of Marek Inglot, S.J., How the Jesuits Survived Their Suppression. The Society of Jesus in the Russian Empire (1773-1814), ed. and trans. D. L. Schlafly (Philadelphia: Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2015), Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 85, Fasc. 169.

Review of Nikolaos Chrissidis, An Academy at the Court of the Tsars: Greek Scholars and Jesuit Education in Early Modern Russia

A review of Au service de la reconciliation des Églises: Jean Gagarin, Jean Martynow et Victor de Buck: Correspondance, edited by Robert Danieluk, S.J., and Bernard Joassart, S.J.

In 1791, amidst growing anxiety about British encroachment on its fur trade with the Qing Empire, the Russian government discovered that Britain was sending a large and important embassy to Beijing, led by Lord Macartney. In an attempt to derail the negotiations, Russia enrolled the Polotsk Jesuits in a plot to convince the Qing of the…[Read more]

A study of the ideological and transnational context of informatics and cybernetics in the late Soviet Union, focusing on the leading Soviet computer scientist Andrei Ershov.

A study of the relationship between pastoral poetry and urban politics in eighteenth-century New York City.

This article examines how the application of optical technologies to the plurality-of-worlds debate in the nineteenth century brought historical questions of determinism, providence and progress into the field of astronomical science. The development of the telescope and spectroscope, described by Richard A. Proctor in 1870 as ‘light-gatherer’ and…[Read more]

Review of Matthew Beaumont, The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin
de Siècle, Peter Lang, 2011, pp. xii + 307, £40.