About this title: By turns exotic, valuable and of cardinal importance in the development of world trade, spices are today a mundane accessory in any well-equipped 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 "Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India", this collection reviews trade in a wide variety of spices, exploring merchant organization, transport and marketing as well as detailing the quantitative evidence on the fluctuations in spice trade. The evidence ...
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Binding: H HARDCOVER
Publisher: ASHGATE PUBLISHING LIMITED
ISBN-13:9781161831078ISBN:116183107X
Description: No dustjacket / Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, (1996). Octavo, 17 x 25 cm. xxxvii, 359pp. Original dark blue cloth, front board and spine stamped in gilt. Issued without a dust jacket. Volume 11 of "An Expanding World" series. Original ISBN: 0... read more
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