Spices: The Story of Indonesia's Spice TradeOxford University Press, 1994 - 78 páginas 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 the course of history as nations battled for control of these precious commodities for use as preservatives, flavourings, fumigants, medicines, and perfumes. Carried by outrigger canoes to the East African coast 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 establishment of trading monopolies and colonial empires as first the Portuguese, followed by the Spanish, Dutch, and English, broke into the lucrative spice trade. |
Contenido
Sources of Spice | 4 |
Early Trade Routes | 11 |
Spices of Trade | 17 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Aceh Ambon Arabs archipelago areca aromatic Asian Banda Islands Bandanese Banten Batavia Bengkulu Betel Chewing British Cape cardamom cargo carracks carried cassia Cattigara cengkeh centre ceremonial China Chinese cinnamon clove-producing cloves Coen Colour Plate commerce dried Dutch early East India Company Eastern Europe European expedition exported flavouring fruits galangal ginger gold Governor-General Holland Indian Ocean Indies Indonesian J. I. Miller Jakarta jamu Java Javanese Jourdain kretek Kuala Lumpur Lisbon London Lontar Malacca Malay medicine Mediterranean merchants monopoly monsoons motif Neira northern Moluccas nutmeg and mace nutmeg grater Oxford University Press pepper perfumes plants port Portugal Portugal's Portuguese produce profits Purseglove Raffles rhizome rice sago sailed sea route Seram seventeenth century ships Silk Road silver Singapore sixteenth century source of spice South-East Asia Spice Islands spice trade Srivijaya Strait Sulawesi Sultan Sumatra Tang Dynasty Ternate Tidore Tomé Pires treaty tuguese turmeric Ujung Pandang voyage West
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