Between east and west : the Moluccas and the traffic in spices up to the arrival of Europeans
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Between east and west : the Moluccas and the traffic in spices up to the arrival of Europeans
- by
- Donkin, R. A
- Publication date
- 2003
- Topics
- east, cloves, sandalwood, indian, india, copyrighted, edited, translated, spices, asia, south east, copyrighted material, east asia, southeast asia, royal asiatic, materia medica, asiatic society, moluccan spices, east asian, hakluyt society
- Publisher
- Philadelphia, PA : American Philosophical Society
- Collection
- americana
- Book from the collections of
- unknown library
- Language
- English
Up to & including the Age of Discoveries, the wealth of the East was thought in Europe to consist primarily of spices & aromatics. Cloves, nutmeg, mace, & sandalwood all were thought to come from a few small islands in easternmost Indonesia, which no European reached before 1500. Yet supplies of these luxury products were reaching China, India, western Asia, & the Mediterranean lands more than a thousand years earlier. This study of Moluccan spices opens with their natural history & nomenclature, & the discovery of the Islands by Europeans near the opposing & controversial limits of Spanish & Portuguese jurisdiction. Donkin traces the expanding interest & longdistance trade in cloves, nutmeg, & sandalwood, first to India & then to the adjacent AraboPersian world. The medieval West & China lay on the margins of diffusion, the former in touch with the Levant, the latter with the trading world of South East Asia.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-238) and indexes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-238) and indexes
- Addeddate
- 2014-11-25 09:07:22
- City
- Philadelphia, PA
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- 0
- Google-id
- B4IFMnssyqgC
- Identifier
- bub_gb_B4IFMnssyqgC
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t6p015v1s
- Isbn
- 0871692481
- Lccn
- 2003048160
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 9.0
- Pages
- 289
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- Worldcat (source edition)
- 186471482
- Year
- 2003
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