The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Brandeis University PressISBN-13:9781684582440ISBN-10:168458244XUPC:9781684582440Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Social History, WorldSize:10.60 x 8.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:3.6024Product ID:SCXQP99QKR
The Spice Ports: Mapping the Origins of Global Sea Trade
A first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce. We may think of "globalism" as a recent development but its origins date back to the fifteenth century and beyond, when seafarers pioneered routes across the oceans with the objectives of exploration, trade, and profit. These voyages only became possible after...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Brandeis University PressISBN-13:9781684582440ISBN-10:168458244XUPC:9781684582440Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Social History, WorldSize:10.60 x 8.60 x 1.20 inchesWeight:3.6024Product ID:SCXQP99QKR
Nicholas Nugent spent his career as a journalist with the BBC World Service and his spare time collecting a valuable archive of original maps, thus developing a passion for how the growth of the spice ports helped spread the exchange of global culture between East and West.
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