{"product_id":"between-east-and-west-r-a-donkin-9780871692481","title":"Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the Arrival of Europeans, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 248)","description":"Up to \u0026amp; including the Age of Discoveries, the wealth of the East was thought in Europe to consist primarily of spices \u0026amp; aromatics. Cloves, nutmeg, mace, \u0026amp; sandalwood all were thought to come from a few small islands in easternmost Indonesia, which no European reached before 1500. Yet supplies of these luxury products were reaching China, India, western Asia, \u0026amp; the Mediterranean lands more than a thousand years earlier. This study of Moluccan spices opens with their natural history \u0026amp; nomenclature, \u0026amp; the discovery of the Islands by Europeans near the opposing (\u0026amp; controversial) limits of Spanish \u0026amp; Portuguese jurisdiction. Donkin traces the expanding interest \u0026amp; long-distance trade in cloves, nutmeg, \u0026amp; sandalwood, first to India \u0026amp; then to the adjacent Arabo-Persian world. The medieval West \u0026amp; China lay on the margins of diffusion, the former in touch with the Levant, the latter with the trading world of South East Asia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. a. Donkin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871692481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871692481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American Philosophical Society Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.69d","brand":"R. a. Donkin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48435710460159,"sku":"9780871692481","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bf532ce3-4bda-4030-aa1f-96457a144b74.jpg?v=1777152188","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/between-east-and-west-r-a-donkin-9780871692481","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}