Spice | Roger Crowley | Paperback
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Cloves and nutmeg helped draw European powers into a fierce contest over distant sea routes. Roger Crowley follows the sixteenth-century struggle for the spice trade, placing maritime exploration within a world of commercial ambition, competition and conquest.
Spanish and Portuguese voyages form part of a much larger trading geography across Asia and the Pacific. What Europeans sought was not simply a route across an empty ocean, but access to goods already moving through complex networks. This makes the book an engaging choice for readers interested in the forces behind the age of sail: the cargoes worth pursuing, the risks of reaching their sources and the consequences of attempts to control them. It connects seafaring history with the making of an increasingly interconnected world.
Book Details
- Author: Roger Crowley
- Full title: Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9780300281125
- Publication date: 12/08/2025
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