Spices in the Indian Ocean World
Spices in the Indian Ocean World

Author: M.N. Pearson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 581

ISBN-13: 1351898639

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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

Spices in the Indian Ocean World
Spices in the Indian Ocean World

Author: Michael Naylor Pearson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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In the 15th-18th centuries, the spice trade from the Indian Ocean to markets all over the world was a major economic enterprise. This collection reviews trade in a variety of spices exploring merchant organisation and transport and marketing

Where Flavor Was Born
Where Flavor Was Born

Author: Andreas Viestad

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2007-09-06

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780811849654

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Explores the culinary wonders along the legendary spice route, from Zanzibar to India to Bali and everywhere in between. Part travelogue, part cookbook, this colorful volume captures the spirit of each region and reveals the origins of the spices now used in everyday cooking across the globe.

Spices, Scents and Silk
Spices, Scents and Silk

Author: James F. Hancock

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1789249740

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Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury products of far-off lands and established long-reaching trade networks. Over time, great powers fought mightily for the kingdoms where silk, spices and scents were produced. The New World was accidentally discovered by Columbus in his quest for spices. In this book, eminent horticulturist and author James Hancock examines the origins and early domestication and culture of spices, scents and silks and the central role these exotic luxuries played in the lives of the ancients. The book also traces the development of the great international trade networks and explores how struggles for trade dominance and demand for such luxuries shaped the world.

The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650
The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650

Author: Ravi Palat

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-14

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1137562269

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To counter Eurocentric notions of long-term historical change, Wet Rice Cultivation and the Emergence of the Indian Ocean draws upon the histories of societies based on wet-rice cultivation to chart an alternate pattern of social evolution and state formation and traces inter-state linkages and the growth of commercialization without capitalism.

India in the Indian Ocean World
India in the Indian Ocean World

Author: Rila Mukherjee

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-03

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 9811665818

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The book integrates the latest scholarly literature on the entire Indian Ocean region, from East Africa to China. Issues such as India's history, India’s changing status in the region, and India's cross-cultural networking over a long period are explored in this book. It is organized in specific themes in thirteen chapters. It incorporates a wealth of research on India’s strategic significance in the Indian Ocean arena throughout history. It enriches the reader's understanding of the emergence of the Indian Ocean basin as a global arena for cross-cultural networking and nation-building. It discusses issues of trade and commerce, the circulation of ideas, peoples and objects, and social and religious themes, focusing on Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. The book provides a refreshingly different survey of India’s connected history in the Indian Ocean region starting from the archaeological record and ending with the coming of empire. The author’s unique experience, combined with an engaging writing style, makes the book highly readable. The book contributes to the field of global history and is of great interest to researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students across the fields of political, cultural, and economic history and strategic studies.

Assembling the Tropics
Assembling the Tropics

Author: Hugh Cagle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-09-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1107196639

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This book charts the convergence of science, culture, and politics across Portugal's empire, showing how a global geographical concept was born. In accessible, narrative prose, this book explores the unexpected forms that science took in the early modern world. It highlights little-known linkages between Asia and the Atlantic world.

Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I
Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I

Author: Angela Schottenhammer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-02-13

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 3319976672

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This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World—the world’s first “global economy”—from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions or thematic aspects to foreground inter- and trans-regional connections. Analyzing multi-lingual records and recent archaeological findings, volume I examines mercantile networks, the role of merchants, routes, and commodities, as well as diasporas and port cities.

Cargoes in Motion
Cargoes in Motion

Author: Burkhard Schnepel

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2022-02-08

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 0821447475

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An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world. Scholars have long appreciated the centrality of trade and commerce in understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin human experience in the Indian Ocean region. But studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape processes of exchange across the Indian Ocean. By following selected cargoes through both space and time, this book makes an important and innovative contribution to Indian Ocean studies. The multidisciplinary approach deepens our understanding of the nature and dynamics of the Indian Ocean world by showing how transoceanic connectivity has been driven not only by economic, social, cultural, and political factors but also by the materiality of the objects themselves. Essays by: Edward A. Alpers Fahad Ahmad Bishara Eva-Maria Knoll Karl-Heinz Kohl Lisa Jenny Krieg Pedro Machado Rupert Neuhöfer Mareike Pampus Hannah Pilgrim Burkhard Schnepel Hanne Schönig Tansen Sen Steven Serels Julia Verne Kunbing Xiao