Spices : the story of Indonesia's spice trade / Joanna Hall Brierley
Digitised Book 216.73.216.191 (0)
1994
Information About
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.
Additional Details
- Title
- Spices : the story of Indonesia's spice trade / Joanna Hall Brierley
- Creators
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- Brierley, Joanna Hall, 1943-
- Subject
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- Spice trade--Indonesia--History
- Publisher
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- Oxford University Press, 1994
- National Library Board Singapore, 1994
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill. (some col.)
- Table of Contents
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- 1. Spices in antiquity -- 2. Sources of spice -- 3. Early trade routes -- 4. Spices of trade -- 5. The Portuguese in the Indies -- 6. The Dutch anci the British in the Indies -- 7. Spices in culture -- Select bibliography -- Index.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.