Spices In The Indian Ocean World (an Expanding World: The European Impact On World History, 1450 To 1800)

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. 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 Colloquies On The Simples And Drugs Of India : Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace And Nutmeg, Pepper / Garcia Da Orta -- The Spice Trade In Mamluk Egypt / Walter J. Fischel -- Spice Prices In The Near East In The 15th Century / E. Ashtor -- Pepper Prices Before Da Gama / Frederic C. Lane -- Le Repli Vénitien Et égyptien Et La Route Du Cap, 1496-1533 / Vitorino Magalhāes Godinho -- The Mediterranean Spice Trade : Further Evidence Of Its Revival In The Sixteenth Century / Frederic C. Lane -- The Return Cargoes Of The Carreira In The 16th And Early 17th Century / Niels Steensgaard -- The Changing Pattern Of Europe's Pepper And Spice Imports, Ca. 1400-1700 / C.h.h. Wake -- The Portuguese Factory And Trade In Pepper In Malabar During The 16th Century ; Pepper Gardens And Market In Precolonial Malabar / Jan Kieniewicz -- The Portuguese Impact On The Production And Trade In Sri Lanka Cinnamon In Asia In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries ; The Portuguese And The Trade In Cloves In Asia During The Sixteenth Century / C.r. De Silva -- A Note On Portuguese Reactions To The Revival Of The Red Sea Spice Trade And The Rise Of Atjeh, 1540-1600 / C.r. Boxer -- The Changing Balance Of The Southeast Asian Pepper Trade / John Bastin -- Restrictive Trading Regimes : Voc And The Asian Spice Trade In The Seventeenth Century / Om Prakash -- The Economics Of Uncertainty : The Structural Revolution In The Spice Trade, 1480-1640 / Peter Musgrave. Edited By M.n. Pearson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgements 8 General Editor's Preface 12 Introduction 16 1 Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India: Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace and Nutmeg, Pepper 40 2 The Spice Trade in Mamluk Egypt 90 3 Spice Prices in the Near East in the 15th Century 108 4 Pepper Prices Before da Gama 124 5 Le repli vénitien et égyptien et la route du Cap, 1496-1533 132 6 The Mediterranean Spice Trade: Further Evidence of its Revival in the Sixteenth Century 150 7 The Return Cargoes of the Carreira in the 16th and Early 17th Century 160 8 The Changing Pattern of Europe's Pepper and Spice Imports, ca. 1400-1700 180 9 The Portuguese Factory and Trade in Pepper in Malabar During the 16th Century 224 10 Pepper Gardens and Market in Precolonial Malabar 248 11 The Portuguese Impact on the Production and Trade in Sri Lanka Cinnamon in Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 284 12 The Portuguese and the Trade in Cloves in Asia During the Sixteenth Century 298 13 A Note on Portuguese Reactions to the Revival of the Red Sea Spice Trade and the Rise of Atjeh, 1540-1600 308 14 The Changing Balance of the Southeast Asian Pepper Trade 322 15 Restrictive Trading Regimes: VOC and the Asian Spice Trade in the Seventeenth Century 356 16 The Economics of Uncertainty: The Structural Revolution in the Spice Trade, 1480-1640 376 Index 390