The Spice Ports
Autor Nicholas Nugenten Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 sep 2024
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780712355957
ISBN-10: 0712355952
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 224 x 282 x 30 mm
Greutate: 1.65 kg
Editura: British Library Publishing
ISBN-10: 0712355952
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 224 x 282 x 30 mm
Greutate: 1.65 kg
Editura: British Library Publishing
Notă biografică
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.
Cuprins
1. The Merchants of Venice with Marco Polo, a pioneering map-maker,
Shakespeare’s Play and Galileo’s Telescope
2. Alexandria, Gateway to the East with Napoleon’s dream, the Suez Canal, the Periplus,
Aden and a taste of coffee
3 Goa and the Malabar Coast and ecclesiastical and other figures who found fame there
4 Lisbon, Queen of the Sea the search for a direct route to India and the making of a national poet
5 Malacca and the Malay World a Chinese admiral, round-the-word sailor and foundations of the law of the sea
6 Amsterdam and the birth of the Netherlands credit to an early spy, plus spices, tulips and the birth of the limited company
7 Batavia and the Spice Islands seeking the original source of spices amid thousands of islands
8 Cape Town and other Taverns of the Seas rivalry in the Indian Ocean, Napoleon meets the founder of Singapore
9 Bombay, Gateway of India a Royal dowry, the American civil war, cotton, tea and opium
10 London, Warehouse of the World oceans give command over the world, plus Longitude,Newton and Darwin
11 New York, Salem and the Manhattan Transfer a territorial swap consolidates British control over spices and North America
12 Singapore, Lion City another island state takes off with help from nutmeg,rubber and ingenuity
Endmatter
Shakespeare’s Play and Galileo’s Telescope
2. Alexandria, Gateway to the East with Napoleon’s dream, the Suez Canal, the Periplus,
Aden and a taste of coffee
3 Goa and the Malabar Coast and ecclesiastical and other figures who found fame there
4 Lisbon, Queen of the Sea the search for a direct route to India and the making of a national poet
5 Malacca and the Malay World a Chinese admiral, round-the-word sailor and foundations of the law of the sea
6 Amsterdam and the birth of the Netherlands credit to an early spy, plus spices, tulips and the birth of the limited company
7 Batavia and the Spice Islands seeking the original source of spices amid thousands of islands
8 Cape Town and other Taverns of the Seas rivalry in the Indian Ocean, Napoleon meets the founder of Singapore
9 Bombay, Gateway of India a Royal dowry, the American civil war, cotton, tea and opium
10 London, Warehouse of the World oceans give command over the world, plus Longitude,Newton and Darwin
11 New York, Salem and the Manhattan Transfer a territorial swap consolidates British control over spices and North America
12 Singapore, Lion City another island state takes off with help from nutmeg,rubber and ingenuity
Endmatter