Awards

• Commended for Barbara Heldt Prize for Best Book by a woman in any area of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 2016 (United States)
• Commended for Barbara Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies 2016 (United States)
• Commended for Early Slavic Studies Association Book Prize 2016 (United States)
• Commended for Heldt Prize for the Best Book in Slavic/Eastern European/Eurasian Women's Studies 2016 (United States)
• Winner of Bruce Lincoln Book Prize 2018 (United States)
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2017 (United States)
• Winner of Honorable mention, Heldt Prize for the Best Book b.

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""In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan demonstrates that trade in Siberia from the late sixteenth through eighteenth centuries was more extensive and significant than has been acknowledged heretofore. Commercial activity in general, not just furs, was the motivation for the Muscovite government's extension of its interests. Monahan tells the reader a great deal about European trade and merchants and uses that evidence to improve our understanding of commercial activity and merchants in Russia in general. In this important book, Monahan sets out nothing less than a revision of the way we imagine the Muscovite economy in the early modern era.""-Valerie A. Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan, author of Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia ""The Merchants of Siberia is ambitious, original, readable, and significant. In this important book, Erika Monahan sets out nothing less than a revision of the way we imagine the Muscovite economy in the early modern era. With a deeply researched examination of trade and commerce across Eurasia, she challenges a number of ingrained assumptions about Russian trade policies as backwards, xenophobic, state-driven, and monopolistic. She finds that the Russian state encouraged trade across Siberia with farsighted policies that granted temporary tax exemption to lure merchants into the area. The state worked in tandem with merchants pursuing their own agendas and fostered private enterprise as well. By examining central decrees, local customs books, merchants' correspondence with their Siberian agents, and petitions between entrepreneurs and central administrative offices, she finds that the state understood the importance of supplying settlements with the necessary food and materials for survival and the need to negotiate attractive deals with foreign states and itinerant merchants.""-Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University Extension School and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, author of Muscovy and the Mongols

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan demonstrates that trade in Siberia from the late sixteenth through eighteenth centuries was more extensive and significant than has been acknowledged heretofore. Commercial activity in general, not just furs, was the motivation for the Muscovite government's extension of its interests. Monahan tells the reader a great deal about European trade and merchants and uses that evidence to improve our understanding of commercial activity and merchants in Russia in general. In this important book, Monahan sets out nothing less than a revision of the way we imagine the Muscovite economy in the early modern era. -Valerie A. Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan, author of Cartographies of Tsardom: The Land and Its Meanings in Seventeenth-Century Russia

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Erika Monahan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico.

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