Ebook: Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia

What the medicines of early modern Russia can tell us about scientific knowledge, global trade networks, and the long reach of colonialism.

Mixing Medicines explores the dynamic and complex world of early modern Russian medical drugs. The first study of Russia’s involvement in the early modern drug trade, it provides unique insight into how the dramatic reshaping of global trade affected the day-to-day lives of subjects and tsars alike.