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Spice Islands /

Cloves and nutmeg are indigenous to the Spice Islands of Eastern Indonesia. The book tells of the many uses of these exotic spices and the history of their trade over a period of more than 2000 years. It describes how the Spice trade into Europe came to be dominated by Middle Eastern and Venetian me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burnet, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : Rosenberg Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Maps; PROLOGUE; 1 The First Spice Traders; 2 The Spice Route; 3 The Silk Road; 4 Zheng He; 5 Venice and Lisbon; 6 Christopher Columbus; 7 Vasco da Gama; 8 Pedro Alvares Cabral; 9 Alfonso de Albuquerque; 10 Francisco Serrão; 11 Ferdinand Magellan; 12 Juan Sebastian Elcano; 13 Ternate and Tidore; 14 The Sultans; 15 Francis Drake; 16 The Dutch East India Company; 17 Jan Pieterszoon Coen; 18 Pierre Poivre; 19 Prince Nuku; EPILOGUE; TIMELINE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.