Author: James Innes MillerPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Römerzeit - Archäobotanik - Handel - Gewürze
The Spice Trade of the Roman Empire, 29 B.C. to A.D. 641
Author: James Innes MillerPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Römerzeit - Archäobotanik - Handel - Gewürze
The spice trade of the Roman Empire
Author: James Innes MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spice trade
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Spice Trade of the Roman Empire, 29 B.C. to A.D. 641
Author: J. Innes MillerThe Spice Trade Under the Roman Empire from the Accession of Augustus to the Death of Heraclius, B.C. 29 to 641 A.D.
Author: James Innes MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spice trade
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Berenike and the Ancient Maritime Spice Route
Author: Steven E. SidebothamPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520303385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The legendary overland silk road was not the only way to reach Asia for ancient travelers from the Mediterranean. During the Roman Empire’s heyday, equally important maritime routes reached from the Egyptian Red Sea across the Indian Ocean. The ancient city of Berenike, located approximately 500 miles south of today’s Suez Canal, was a significant port among these conduits. In this book, Steven E. Sidebotham, the archaeologist who excavated Berenike, uncovers the role the city played in the regional, local, and “global” economies during the eight centuries of its existence. Sidebotham analyzes many of the artifacts, botanical and faunal remains, and hundreds of the texts he and his team found in excavations, providing a profoundly intimate glimpse of the people who lived, worked, and died in this emporium between the classical Mediterranean world and Asia.
The Spice Route
Author: John KeayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780719561993
Category : International handel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An exotic saga with the tang of drama in every voyage, The Spice Route transports the reader from the dawn of history to the ends of the earth The Spice Route is one of history's great anomalies. Shrouded in mystery, it existed long before anyone knew of its extent or alignment. Spices came from lands unseen, possibly uninhabitable, and almost by definition unattainable; that was what made them so desirable. Yet more livelihoods depended on this pungent traffic, more nations participated in it, more wars were fought over it, and more discoveries resulted from it than from any other global exchange. In a bid to discover and exploit the spice route, mankind first passed beyond his known horizons to probe the limits of our planet. Epic was the quest, and in this major new study, epic is the treatment as John Keay pieces together a historical process that spans three millennia and a geographical progression that encircles the world.
Roman Medicine
Author: John ScarboroughPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Rome's Eastern Trade
Author: Gary K. YoungPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134547935
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Utilising new archaeological research the author questions the traditionally held view that the imperial government had a strong political interest in eastern trade. Instead, he argues that their primary motivation was the tax income.
Spice
Author: Jack TurnerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307491226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs. One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
Spices, Scents and Silk
Author: James F. HancockPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1789249740
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury products of far-off lands and established long-reaching trade networks. Over time, great powers fought mightily for the kingdoms where silk, spices and scents were produced. The New World was accidentally discovered by Columbus in his quest for spices. In this book, eminent horticulturist and author James Hancock examines the origins and early domestication and culture of spices, scents and silks and the central role these exotic luxuries played in the lives of the ancients. The book also traces the development of the great international trade networks and explores how struggles for trade dominance and demand for such luxuries shaped the world.