Trading Tastes Commodity and Cultural Exchange To 1750

Name: Trading Tastes Commodity and Cultural Exchange To 1750
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ISBN: 9780131900073

ISBN-10: 0131900072

ISBN-13: 9780131900073

Edition: 2006

Authors: Erik Gilbert, Jonathan Reynolds

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Trade and commerce have been primary forces in the dynamics of world history since before the dawn of agriculture. For better and for worse, trade has been a major factor in the exchange of foreign products, ideas, belief systems, modes of artistic expression, and even flora and fauna.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 9/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

He is a freelance cameraman and television trainer working with International Training and Television Consultancy. He is ex-Chairman of the Guild of Television Cameramen and former Head of Cameras at Television South West.



Foreword


Series Editor's Preface


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


Introduction


Trade


Why Trade?


Merchants


Trade and Commerce


Periodization


Trade Systems


Why Spice?


Why Salt?


Why Sugar?


Why Silk?


Connected Commodities



The Spice Trade


The Spice Paradox


Pepper


Cloves


Nutmeg


Cinnamon


The First Global Foods


The Spice Trade in Classical Times


The Spice Trade and Cross-cultural Interaction in the Classical Period


Romans in India


The Indianization of Southeast Asia


The Spice Trade in the Age of Islam


Cross-cultural Interaction in the Age of Islam


Europeans in the Indian Ocean



The Salt Trade


Introduction: China and West Africa


Salt in China


Chinese Salt Production


Salt and Governmental Power


Consequences of the Salt Monopoly


Salt in West Africa


West Africa's Sources of Salt


The Structure of the Trade


Salt and Cultural Change in the Savannahs


New Sources of Salt


Conclusions: Salt and Culture in China and West Africa



Sugar and Slavery


Sugar Cane and Sweet Foods


The Origins of the Plantation Complex


Sugar in the New World


Slavery and Sugar


Conclusion



The Silk Trade


Silk Production


Silk in China


Origins of the Silk Road


Roman Silk


Silk Production Outside of China


Silk and the Salvation Religions



Making Connections: How Much Have Things Changed?


Commerce Circa 1750


A Final Question


Modernity


The Age of Industry


A Twentieth-Century Turning Point?


The Age of the Shipping Container


Contemporary Information Technology


Bibliography


Index