Spice: The 16th-Century Contest That Shaped the Modern World

by Roger Crowley

Book Overview

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific

Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300281129
• ISBN13: 9780300281125
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages