Matthew P Romaniello
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 306029 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Matthew P Romaniello |
| PRENOMES | Matthew P |
| SOBRENOME | Romaniello |
| ASSINATURA | ROMANIELLO M P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5159-764X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sanitizing Moscow
The Influential Influenza
The influenza pandemic of 1781-1782 was remarkably well-documented, with investigations and treatment records produced in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia. Everyone agreed that outbreak began in St. Petersburg in December 1781 and then spread across northern Europe, but the medical communities’ consensus did not solve all issues. Two questions would inspire years of debate. The first concerned the transmission vector of the pandemic: w…
Commodities in Context
Earlier historians of medicine have often accepted medieval Russia’s isolation from Eurasian networks for exchanging knowledge, offering the absence of medical texts as proof of an absence of information. By contrast, this article argues that the Silk Roads’ connections to Russia consistently supplied pharmaceutical products and knowledge through merchants and their commodities, rather than through texts. This conclusion agrees with the idea of a…
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century
This article focuses on three unique products circulating in the eighteenth-century marketplace – castor, mammoth tusks, and asbestos – and highlights the role of naturalists working for the Royal Society in London and at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg in promoting the consumption of these goods. Naturalists’ scientific investigations of these products were essential to distinguish and identify the quality (and, correspondingly…
Outsourcing Empire
Asia in the Russian Imagination
This special issue of Sibirica is devoted to exploring Russia’s complicated relationship with Asia. Along with an edited volume (Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities, forthcoming), it is an outgrowth of the “Asia in the Russian Imagination” conference that was held at the University of Utah in March 2018. This conference brought together an interdisciplinary body of scholars from the United States, Canada, and Russia to discu…
Transitions and Departures
With the arrival of volume 19, our readers will notice there have been some changes to the editorial organization of Sibirica. This special issue on “Asia in the Russian Imagination,” of which I am one of the guest editors, will be my final contribution to Sibirica. Last year I was presented the opportunity to become the editor of The Journal of World History for the next five years, which is a full-time obligation. I am excited to let you know t…
Maria Salomon Arel. English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era
The turn toward transnational history has reinvigorated the history of trading companies in the early modern world, which benefit from considering the entangled lives of merchants interacting both at home and abroad. Maria Salomon Arel’s study English Trade and Adventure to Russia in the Early Modern Era fits into this trend by offering new findings from the archives in the United Kingdom and Russia to recover the history of the English Muscovy C…
Decolonizing Siberian Minds
Russian imperialism continues to leave a strong imprint on indigenous cultures across Siberia, and throughout the Russian Federation and the post-Soviet republics. Imperialism is invasive and persistent, and it might be impossible to escape its consequences. In 1986, African novelist and postcolonial theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o published his influential essay collection, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. One of…
Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region
The Rise and Fall of Khoqand
Transitions and Arrivals
Kelly O’Neill. Claiming Crimea
Kelly O’Neill’s Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire is a timely analysis of Russia’s southern empire that positions the region as a pivotal arena for Russia’s developing relationship with its Muslim subjects. O’Neill focuses on the annexation of Crimea in the eighteenth century and its slow integration into the empire over the next seventy years, ending her narrative just before the Crimean War. O’Neill argues that…
Orthodox Communities on Russia’s Frontiers
This essay is a brief comment on the preceding essays, highlighting two issues of significance raised by these authors. The first is whether the frontier itself influenced the evolution of Orthodox belief. Did distance create an opportunity to expand the faith? The second question considers the impact of the Russian Empire on its religious communities, and examines the way in which religion can reveal the tension between center and periphery. To …
An Academy at the Court of the Tsars
Tobacco! Tobacco!”
Russia transitioned from enforcing the world’s longest ban on importing tobacco in the seventeenth century to legalizing the product at the beginning of the eighteenth and ultimately becoming one of the world’s largest producers of tobacco by the nineteenth century. A part of this process neglected by historians is the way in which Russia distributed tobacco among the indigenous communities in Siberia, Kamchatka, and Russian America, creating new…
Threads of Empire
True rhubarb? Trading Eurasian botanical and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century
Early modern Russia sat at the intersection of Eurasian trade networks, which allowed both commodities and information to move from east to west and north to south. Rhubarb exported from China had held a prominent position in Western medical treatments since the classical era, but improved transportation and communication between Europe and Asia through Russia enabled the growth of the medicinal rhubarb trade to unexpected heights after 1760. Ear…
For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being
Alison Smith’s monograph is an examination of the evolution of the soslovie system from its emergence in the eighteenth century until the Russian Revolution of 1917. ‘Sosloviia’ was a social estate, or, as Smith clarifies, ‘the social categories that governed the rights and duties of individual Russians (and non-Russians), into which most subjects were born’ (p. 5). Smith’s study approaches soslovie by considering 357 cases (uncovered in twelve a…
Balkan Smoke
Reviewed by: Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria by Mary C. Neuburger Matthew P. Romaniello Mary C. Neuburger. Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. x + 307 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-5084-6, $39.95 (cloth). During the Cold War, Bulgaria emerged as the world’s largest exporter of cigarettes. The growth of its tobacco industry was spurred by its ability to supply the Sovie…
Desperate Magic
Journal Article Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia, by Valerie Kivelson Get access Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia, by Valerie Kivelson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U.P., 2013; pp. xx + 349. $79.95; pb. $27.95). Matthew P. Romaniello Matthew P. Romaniello University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Eng…
Moscow’s Lost Petition to the Tsar, 2 June 1648
A Bride for the Tsar
Who Should Smoke? Tobacco and the Humoral Body in Early Modern England
Few products received the attention of tobacco in the early modern world, with a plurality of opinions from medical, religious, political, and economic authorities arriving in the wake of the arrival of the product. In England, much of the language of this discussion was gendered, with a consensus emerging that smoking might be acceptable for men, but was potentially dangerous for women. By focusing upon the earliest period of tobacco’s arrival i…
Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800
1. Introduction: the travel account from Beijing to the Bosphorus 2. From Timur to the Bahmanis: fifteenth-century views 3. Courtly encounters 4. An ocean of wonders 5. When hell is other people 6. An eastern mirror 7. The long road to rum 8. On early-modern travel
Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800
1. Introduction: the travel account from Beijing to the Bosphorus 2. From Timur to the Bahmanis: fifteenth-century views 3. Courtly encounters 4. An ocean of wonders 5. When hell is other people 6. An eastern mirror 7. The long road to rum 8. On early-modern travel
Outsourcing Empire
Could Siberian ‘Natural Curiosities’ Be Replaced? Bioprospecting in the Eighteenth-Century
This article focuses on three unique products circulating in the eighteenth-century marketplace – castor, mammoth tusks, and asbestos – and highlights the role of naturalists working for the Royal Society in London and at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg in promoting the consumption of these goods. Naturalists’ scientific investigations of these products were essential to distinguish and identify the quality (and, correspondingly…
True rhubarb? Trading Eurasian botanical and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century
Early modern Russia sat at the intersection of Eurasian trade networks, which allowed both commodities and information to move from east to west and north to south. Rhubarb exported from China had held a prominent position in Western medical treatments since the classical era, but improved transportation and communication between Europe and Asia through Russia enabled the growth of the medicinal rhubarb trade to unexpected heights after 1760. Ear…
Who Should Smoke? Tobacco and the Humoral Body in Early Modern England
Few products received the attention of tobacco in the early modern world, with a plurality of opinions from medical, religious, political, and economic authorities arriving in the wake of the arrival of the product. In England, much of the language of this discussion was gendered, with a consensus emerging that smoking might be acceptable for men, but was potentially dangerous for women. By focusing upon the earliest period of tobacco’s arrival i…
Mission Delayed
Muscovy's active period of eastward expansion began with the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan' in 1552. By the seventeenth century, one observer claimed that the conquest of Kazan' was the event that made Ivan IV a tsar and Muscovy an empire. With this victory, the tsar claimed new lands, adding to his subjects the diverse animistic and Muslim population of Turkic Tatars and Chuvashes, and Finno-Ugric Maris, Mordvins, and Udmurts. The conquest of…
Ethnicity as Social Rank
Most European early-modern states transitioned from composite monarchies into centralized ones. Essentially, composite monarchies were “more than one country under the sovereignty of one ruler.” As Moscow expanded and acquired the surrounding principalities either by inheritance or force, its grand princes enacted a series of legal and administrative reforms to dissolve the differences among its territories and create a centralized monarchy. Thes…
Controlling the frontier
Controlling the frontier
History of Ukraine-Rus'. Vol. 8, the Cossack Age to 1626-1650
Medieval Central Asia
State & Polity in Turco-Mongol Central Asia The Kurultai & the Kangash Administration Under the Samanids The Administrative Structure Under the Uzbegs The Uzbeg State & Nobility in the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries State & Religion Under Timur & His Successors State & Religion Under the Uzbegs Military Organization Under Chingiz Khan Military Organization Under Timur & His Successors Agriculture & Agrarian Relations of Central Asia System of Ta…
Ethnicity as Social Rank
Most European early-modern states transitioned from composite monarchies into centralized ones. Essentially, composite monarchies were “more than one country under the sovereignty of one ruler.” As Moscow expanded and acquired the surrounding principalities either by inheritance or force, its grand princes enacted a series of legal and administrative reforms to dissolve the differences among its territories and create a centralized monarchy. Thes…
Mission Delayed
Muscovy's active period of eastward expansion began with the conquest of the Khanate of Kazan' in 1552. By the seventeenth century, one observer claimed that the conquest of Kazan' was the event that made Ivan IV a tsar and Muscovy an empire. With this victory, the tsar claimed new lands, adding to his subjects the diverse animistic and Muslim population of Turkic Tatars and Chuvashes, and Finno-Ugric Maris, Mordvins, and Udmurts. The conquest of…
Through the Filter of Tobacco
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Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800
1. Introduction: the travel account from Beijing to the Bosphorus 2. From Timur to the Bahmanis: fifteenth-century views 3. Courtly encounters 4. An ocean of wonders 5. When hell is other people 6. An eastern mirror 7. The long road to rum 8. On early-modern travel
A Bride for the Tsar
Who Should Smoke? Tobacco and the Humoral Body in Early Modern England
Few products received the attention of tobacco in the early modern world, with a plurality of opinions from medical, religious, political, and economic authorities arriving in the wake of the arrival of the product. In England, much of the language of this discussion was gendered, with a consensus emerging that smoking might be acceptable for men, but was potentially dangerous for women. By focusing upon the earliest period of tobacco’s arrival i…
Moscow’s Lost Petition to the Tsar, 2 June 1648
Balkan Smoke
Reviewed by: Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria by Mary C. Neuburger Matthew P. Romaniello Mary C. Neuburger. Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. x + 307 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-5084-6, $39.95 (cloth). During the Cold War, Bulgaria emerged as the world’s largest exporter of cigarettes. The growth of its tobacco industry was spurred by its ability to supply the Sovie…
Desperate Magic
Journal Article Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia, by Valerie Kivelson Get access Desperate Magic: The Moral Economy of Witchcraft in Seventeenth-Century Russia, by Valerie Kivelson (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U.P., 2013; pp. xx + 349. $79.95; pb. $27.95). Matthew P. Romaniello Matthew P. Romaniello University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Eng…
Threads of Empire
True rhubarb? Trading Eurasian botanical and medical knowledge in the eighteenth century
Early modern Russia sat at the intersection of Eurasian trade networks, which allowed both commodities and information to move from east to west and north to south. Rhubarb exported from China had held a prominent position in Western medical treatments since the classical era, but improved transportation and communication between Europe and Asia through Russia enabled the growth of the medicinal rhubarb trade to unexpected heights after 1760. Ear…
For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being
Alison Smith’s monograph is an examination of the evolution of the soslovie system from its emergence in the eighteenth century until the Russian Revolution of 1917. ‘Sosloviia’ was a social estate, or, as Smith clarifies, ‘the social categories that governed the rights and duties of individual Russians (and non-Russians), into which most subjects were born’ (p. 5). Smith’s study approaches soslovie by considering 357 cases (uncovered in twelve a…
Orthodox Communities on Russia’s Frontiers
This essay is a brief comment on the preceding essays, highlighting two issues of significance raised by these authors. The first is whether the frontier itself influenced the evolution of Orthodox belief. Did distance create an opportunity to expand the faith? The second question considers the impact of the Russian Empire on its religious communities, and examines the way in which religion can reveal the tension between center and periphery. To …
An Academy at the Court of the Tsars
Tobacco! Tobacco!”
Russia transitioned from enforcing the world’s longest ban on importing tobacco in the seventeenth century to legalizing the product at the beginning of the eighteenth and ultimately becoming one of the world’s largest producers of tobacco by the nineteenth century. A part of this process neglected by historians is the way in which Russia distributed tobacco among the indigenous communities in Siberia, Kamchatka, and Russian America, creating new…
Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region
The Rise and Fall of Khoqand
Transitions and Arrivals
Kelly O’Neill. Claiming Crimea
Kelly O’Neill’s Claiming Crimea: A History of Catherine the Great’s Southern Empire is a timely analysis of Russia’s southern empire that positions the region as a pivotal arena for Russia’s developing relationship with its Muslim subjects. O’Neill focuses on the annexation of Crimea in the eighteenth century and its slow integration into the empire over the next seventy years, ending her narrative just before the Crimean War. O’Neill argues that…
Decolonizing Siberian Minds
Russian imperialism continues to leave a strong imprint on indigenous cultures across Siberia, and throughout the Russian Federation and the post-Soviet republics. Imperialism is invasive and persistent, and it might be impossible to escape its consequences. In 1986, African novelist and postcolonial theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o published his influential essay collection, Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature. One of…
Asia in the Russian Imagination
This special issue of Sibirica is devoted to exploring Russia’s complicated relationship with Asia. Along with an edited volume (Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities, forthcoming), it is an outgrowth of the “Asia in the Russian Imagination” conference that was held at the University of Utah in March 2018. This conference brought together an interdisciplinary body of scholars from the United States, Canada, and Russia to discu…
Transitions and Departures
With the arrival of volume 19, our readers will notice there have been some changes to the editorial organization of Sibirica. This special issue on “Asia in the Russian Imagination,” of which I am one of the guest editors, will be my final contribution to Sibirica. Last year I was presented the opportunity to become the editor of The Journal of World History for the next five years, which is a full-time obligation. I am excited to let you know t…
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