Daily Archives: September 14, 2016
The Merchants of Siberia — “A Rising Tide Raises All Ships” (even on Lake Yamysh)
I am among those who eagerly awaited the publication of Erika Monahan’s book, The Merchants of Siberia. For a number of years I’ve been developing a study of what one might call (if one were inclined to use flamboyant catch … Continue reading
Merchants of Siberia: Seen and Unseen
There’s a moment in The Merchants of Siberia that I suspect will call forth a sigh of weary recognition from nearly any historian—or perhaps only from any historian working on the early modern world, or perhaps even only from any … Continue reading
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