Erika Monahan: Podcast Interviews

Erika Monahan, PhD

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Historian, Interview host, Author

9 Interviews

Erika Monahan's Interviews

Erika Monahan & Donald Ostrowski • 12 Dec 2023 • EN

Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski, "The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

In the current context, where Vladimir Putin justifies his war against Ukraine by insisting on an inevitable, unbroken teleology that binds Kyiv to Moscow, he need to critically reexamine such interpretations is painfully evident. Christian Raffensperger and Donald Ostrowski's book The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Fa

Erika Monahan & Quinn Slobodian • 03 Nov 2023 • EN

Empires, States, Corporations: A Discussion with Historians Philip J. Stern and Quinn Slobodian

Adam Smith wrote that, “Political economy belongs to no nation; it is of no country: it is the science of the rules for the production, the accumulation, the distribution, and the consumption of wealth.” However Adam Smith regarded the science of political economy, in practical terms, one is quite hard pressed to find

Erika Monahan & Andrey Ivanov • 22 Sep 2022 • EN

Andrey V. Ivanov, "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700–1825" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)

The ideas of the Protestant Reformation, followed by the European Enlightenment, had a profound and long-lasting impact on Russia’s church and society in the long eighteenth century. Though the Orthodox Church was often assumed to have been hostile toward outside influence, A Spiritual Revolution argues that the instit