

On drawing lines across the board
pp. 45-78
in: Leo Zaibert (ed), The theory and practice of ontology, Berlin, Springer, 2016Abstract
In his celebrated Romanes Lecture of 1907, George Curzon of Kedleston—former British Viceroy of India under Queen Victoria and King Edward VII and future Secretary for Foreign Affairs under King George V—emphasized the overwhelming influence of political frontiers in the history of the modern world.