Spice The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World Ariel Lawhon Gerald Lovell

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Spice The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World Ariel Lawhon Gerald LovellBy: Roger Crowley Published by Yale University Press, 2025 07 04 The story of the sixteenth century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese