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
Author(s): Michael Naylor Pearson
Series: An Expanding World, 11
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 400
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
General Editor's Preface
Introduction
1 Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India: Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace and Nutmeg, Pepper
2 The Spice Trade in Mamluk Egypt
3 Spice Prices in the Near East in the 15th Century
4 Pepper Prices Before da Gama
5 Le repli vénitien et égyptien et la route du Cap, 1496-1533
6 The Mediterranean Spice Trade: Further Evidence of its Revival in the Sixteenth Century
7 The Return Cargoes of the Carreira in the 16th and Early 17th Century
8 The Changing Pattern of Europe's Pepper and Spice Imports, ca. 1400-1700
9 The Portuguese Factory and Trade in Pepper in Malabar During the 16th Century
10 Pepper Gardens and Market in Precolonial Malabar
11 The Portuguese Impact on the Production and Trade in Sri Lanka Cinnamon in Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
12 The Portuguese and the Trade in Cloves in Asia During the Sixteenth Century
13 A Note on Portuguese Reactions to the Revival of the Red Sea Spice Trade and the Rise of Atjeh, 1540-1600
14 The Changing Balance of the Southeast Asian Pepper Trade
15 Restrictive Trading Regimes: VOC and the Asian Spice Trade in the Seventeenth Century
16 The Economics of Uncertainty: The Structural Revolution in the Spice Trade, 1480-1640
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