{"product_id":"europes-laboratory-matthew-p-romaniello-9781501783920","title":"Europe's Laboratory: Climate and Health in Eighteenth-Century Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEurope's Laboratory \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a history of eighteenth-century naturalists and physicians who were involved in the creation of a classification system for the people of the Russian Empire.\u003c\/b\u003e These Enlightened scholars traveled through Russia describing its people, landscape, and customs. In an era when climate was seen as a significant factor affecting health and bodies, these men wondered: How did the Russians, a \"cold\" people--phlegmatic or melancholic, according to humoral theory--manage an empire? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussia's empire, as Matthew P. Romaniello shows, contradicted the medical knowledge reflecting centuries of experimentation and practice. In solving this riddle, naturalists and physicians would unlock the secret of Russia's success and create a typology of imperial bodies, a guide toward managing the empire's diversity, to prepare Russia for greater successes in the nineteenth century. Rather than an underpopulated region of unambitious people, eighteenth-century Russia was a dynamic empire that mastered skills to support settler colonialism in climates unfamiliar to other Europeans.\u003ci\u003e Europe's Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to the most understudied era of Russian history while engaging the broader, global debates on the formation of race theory in colonial contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew P. Romaniello\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501783920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501783920\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Matthew P. Romaniello","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47579774812415,"sku":"9781501783920","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7c316e85-94d7-4a01-a91c-7c0e9dd9276f.jpg?v=1763876561","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/europes-laboratory-matthew-p-romaniello-9781501783920","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}