Spices
by Joanna Hall Brierley
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Stories of the spice trade of the East Indies have long held the imagination. Cloves, nutmeg, pepper, and cinnamon - indigenous to only 15 of the 13,000 islands forming the Indonesian archipelago - were to bring to the Indies a trade that existed for over 2,000 years, and were to change thecourse of history as nations battled for control of these precious commodities for use as preservatives, flavourings, fumigants, medicines, and perfumes.Carried by outrigger canoe to the East African coast show more and by camels along the Silk Road from China in the first and second centuries BC, spices led to the rise of the powerful maritime kingdoms of Srivijaya and Majapahit in the archipelago and, in the sixteenth century onwards, to the establishmentof trading monopolies and colonial empires as first the Portuguese, followed by the Spanish, Dutch, and English, broke into the lucrative spice trade. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Spices
- Original title
- Spices
- Original publication date
- 1994
- Important places
- Indonesia
- Dedication
- For Dumbo and Neil
- First words
- What is a spice?
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The spice entrepôt for the region is now Singapore, at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, very near to the port of Malacca that once controlled the Strait.
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- Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature
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- 380.1 — Society, government, & culture Commerce, communications & transportation regulations Agencies for Trade, Communication, Transport
- LCC
- HD9210 .I62 .B74 — Social sciences Industries. Land use. Labor Industries. Land use. Labor Special industries and trades Agricultural industries
- BISAC
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