Page from a Dutch translation of the 1724 Russian tarifbook. Photo published with permission of the Stadsarchief Amsterdam. Document details: collection no. 78, Archief van de Directie van de Oostersche Handel en Reederijen: Item 399, Reglement van laden en lossen en tarief van inkomende en uitgaande rechten
van de havens Petersburg, Viborg, Narva, Archangel en Kola (1724).
Edited Volumes and Special Editions
Co-editor of The Natural Turn in Early Modern Russian History, ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, 6 (2018). Full edition available open access here.
Co-editor of Perpetual Motion? Transition and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe & Russia (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL: London, UK, 2011). Available open access here.
Co-editor of Perpetual Motion? Transition and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe & Russia (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL: London, UK, 2011). Available open access here.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
‘Plants and Medicine: Herbal Healing in the Early Modern Global World,’ A Cultural History of Plants in the Age of Enlightenment (1648-1815), edited by Jennifer Milam (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022).
Winner of the Society of Economic Botany’s Daniel F. Austin Award for best edited volume, 2022
‘Immateriality and Intermateriality: The Vanishing Centrality of Apothecary Wares in Seventeenth-Century Russian Medicine,’ The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Faberge, 1600-present edited by Alison Smith, Tricia Starks and Matthew P. Romaniello (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), 17-32. Book Available to purchase here.
'Disentangling commodity histories: Pauame and sassafras in the early modern global world'. Journal of Global History, 15, 1 (2020), 1-18.
Published version available here.
Final draft available here.
'Every Court an Island? Palace Medicine, International Exchanges, and Popular Practices in Early Modern Russia.' Medizinhistorisches Journal 53, no. 3-4 (2018): 309-330. Available here.
‘Bureaucracy and Knowledge Creation: The Apothecary Chancery’, in Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850, edited by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers (Open Book Publishers: Cambridge, 2017), pp. 255-286. My chapter is available open access here. The full volume is available open access here.
‘Russia and the Medical Drug Trade in the Seventeenth Century’, Social History of Medicine, 31, 1, 2018, pp. 2–23. Available open access here.
'In Search of an Audience: Popular Pharmacies and the Limits of Literate Medicine in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Russia', Bulletin for the History of Medicine, 89 (2015), 705–732. Available here.
‘Рог единорога : медицина и тайные средства при Московском дворе,’ Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskou: Lectures in the History of the 18th and 19th Centuries, 2010 (in Russian).
Read it here.
Winner of the Society of Economic Botany’s Daniel F. Austin Award for best edited volume, 2022
‘Immateriality and Intermateriality: The Vanishing Centrality of Apothecary Wares in Seventeenth-Century Russian Medicine,’ The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Faberge, 1600-present edited by Alison Smith, Tricia Starks and Matthew P. Romaniello (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), 17-32. Book Available to purchase here.
'Disentangling commodity histories: Pauame and sassafras in the early modern global world'. Journal of Global History, 15, 1 (2020), 1-18.
Published version available here.
Final draft available here.
'Every Court an Island? Palace Medicine, International Exchanges, and Popular Practices in Early Modern Russia.' Medizinhistorisches Journal 53, no. 3-4 (2018): 309-330. Available here.
‘Bureaucracy and Knowledge Creation: The Apothecary Chancery’, in Information and Empire: Mechanisms of Communication in Russia, 1600-1850, edited by Simon Franklin and Katherine Bowers (Open Book Publishers: Cambridge, 2017), pp. 255-286. My chapter is available open access here. The full volume is available open access here.
‘Russia and the Medical Drug Trade in the Seventeenth Century’, Social History of Medicine, 31, 1, 2018, pp. 2–23. Available open access here.
'In Search of an Audience: Popular Pharmacies and the Limits of Literate Medicine in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Russia', Bulletin for the History of Medicine, 89 (2015), 705–732. Available here.
‘Рог единорога : медицина и тайные средства при Московском дворе,’ Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskou: Lectures in the History of the 18th and 19th Centuries, 2010 (in Russian).
Read it here.