Spices in the Indian Ocean World (An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 to 1800) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138274070 ISBN 13: 9781138274075

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

By turns exotic, valuable and of cardinal importance in the development of world trade, spices, as the editor reminds us, are today a mundane accessory in any well-equiped kitchen; in the 15th-18th centuries, the spice trade from the Indian Ocean to markets all over the world was a major economic enterprise. Setting the scene with extracts from Garcia da Orta's fascinating contemporary Colloquies on the drugs and simples of India [Goa 1563], this collection reviews trade in a wide variety of spices, exploring merchant organisation, transport and marketing as well as detailing the quantitative evidence on the fluctuations in spice trade. The evidence and historical debates concerning the 16th-century revival of the Mediterranean and Red Sea spice trade at this time, are fully represented here

About this title

About the Author:

M. N. Pearson, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Garcia da Orta, Walter J. Fischel, E. Ashtor, Frederic C.Lane, Vitorino Magalhaes Godinho, Frederic C. Lane, Niels Steensgaard, C.H.H. Wake, Jan Kieniewicz, Jan Kieniewicz, C. R. Boxer, John Bastin; Om Prakash, Peter Musgrave.

Review:

'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138274070
• ISBN 13: 9781138274075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Pearson M.N.