Spices in the Indian Ocean world / edited by M.N. Pearson.

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, [1996], ©1996.

xxxvii, 359 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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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.

Includes bibliographic references and index