SUMMARY:

Four participants in the conference “Trade and Empire: Productivity, Economic Exchange, and Differences in Eurasia” jointly organized by Ab Imperio and Tyumen State University in Russia in June 2020 discuss various aspects of the interplay between new imperial history and history of economic exchanges. Marina Loskutova suggests that looking at the economic dimensions of forestry in the late eighteenth–early nineteenth century can reveal much about the dynamic relationship between the British and Russian Empires, as well as help us understand the emergence and reach of modern state control.