10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPICERIES»
Discover the use of
spiceries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spiceries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of ...
During the first two decades the Dutch swept the Iberians from the Spiceries,
negotiated monopolistic trade agreements with Ternate and most other princes,
and staved off British attempts to claim a share of the trade. The VOC's
determination ...
Donald F. Lach, Edwin J. Van Kley, 1998
2
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume I: The Century of ...
Of the physical surroundings and the peoples of the Spiceries he gives a dark
picture. They have no government, live in gloomy, low houses built of timber, and
are very primitive in their way of life. They are pagans whose beliefs resemble ...
And the other reason is the additional service which we shall render to the King D
. Manuel in taking this city, because it is the headquarters of all the spiceries and
drugs which the Moors carry every year hence to the Straits without our being ...
William Duiker, Jackson Spielvogel, 2006
4
The Science of Navigation: From Dead Reckoning to GPS
The spiceries, as the Moluccan Islands came to be called, provided the initial
stimulus for all the subsequent exploration in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and
seventeenth centuries. All the expeditions and explorers that you have heard of
from those ...
5
Annals of Aberdeen: From the Reign of King William the Lion, ...
They presented to him a propine, in wine, wax, and spiceries, to the value of 100
merks.1- In the month of May, this year, he made another visit, along with Mary,
queen dow- 1552. ager, accompanied with many of the nobility, on the occasion
...
6
Annals of Aberdeen, from the reign of king William the lion
They presented to him a propine, in wine, wax, and spiceries, to the value of 100
merks. f In the month of May, this year, he made another visit, along with Mary,
queen dow- 1552. ager, accompanied with many of the nobility, on the occasion
of ...
7
A general history and collection of voyages and travels: ...
In after times these merchandizes, drugs, and spiceries, were carried in ships
from India to the Straits of Ormus, and the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and were
unladen at the city of Basora ; from whence they were carried overland to Aleppo,
...
8
Merchant Kings: When Companies Ruled the World, 1600--1900
Arab middlemen, who profited immensely from their coveted role, discouraged
inquiry into their sources by spinning blood-curdling tales: that “the spiceries,” the
region where spices originated, were guarded by ferocious beasts, that the seas
...
9
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, ...
The French, and particularly the Normans, taking immediate advantage of this
truce, imported into England an immense quantity of wine, fruits, spiceries, and
fish ; gold and silver alone were given in exchange. The Normans appear to have
...
10
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II: A Century of ...
In Spain the union certainly aroused hopes of sharing the wealth that was
commonly supposed to be pouring into Portugal from die Spiceries. And, when it
is recalled that Spain was largely unthreatened by the Turks in the Mediterranean
after ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPICERIES»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
spiceries is used in the context of the following news items.
The mystery behind how curry got its name
... "certain messes made with butter with the kernel of the coconut with spiceries of every kind, among the rest cardamom and ginger with vegetables, fruits and a ... «India Today, Jul 13»
The Ecology of Marxian Political Economy
Thus Dutch colonists had in particularly fertile periods burned “spiceries” or paid natives to “collect the young blossoms or green leaves of the nutmeg trees” to ... «Monthly Review, Aug 11»
The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
He explained that, in particularly fertile periods, Dutch colonialists burned “spiceries” or paid natives to “collect the young blossoms or green leaves of the ... «Monthly Review, Oct 09»
