Spices in the Indian Ocean world
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Spices in the Indian Ocean world
(An expanding world, v. 11)
Variorum, 1996
Available at 52 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. xxxiv-xxxvii
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction
- Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India: cinnamon, cloves, mace and nutmeg, pepper, Garcia da Orta
- The spice trade of Mamluk Egypt, Walter J. Fischel
- Spice prices in the Near East in the 15th century, E. Ashtor
- Pepper prices before da Gama, Frederic C.Lane
- Le repli venitien et egyptien et la route du Cap, 1496-1533, Vitorino Magalha]es Godinho
- The Mediterranean spice trade: further evidence of its revival in the 16th century, Frederic C. Lane
- The return cargoes of the Carreira in the 16th and early 17th century, Niels Steensgaard
- The changing pattern of Europe's pepper and spice imports, ca. 1400-1700, C.H.H. Wake
- The Portuguese factory and trade in pepper in Malabar during the 16th century, Jan Kieniewicz
- Pepper gardens and market in precolonial Malabar, Jan Kieniewicz
- The Portuguese impact on the production and trade in Sri Lanka cinnamon in Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries, C. R. de Silva
- The Portuguese and the trade in cloves in Asia during the 16th century, C.R. de Silva
- A note on Portuguese reactions to the revival of the Red Sea spice trade and the rise of Atjeh, 1540-1600, C. R. Boxer
- The changing balance of the southeast Asian pepper trade, John Bastin
- Restrictive trade regimes: VOC and the Asian spice trade in the 17th century, Om Prakash
- The economics of uncertainty: the structural revolution in the spice trade, 1480-1640, Peter Musgrave
- Index.
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