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Author : Barbara Osborne Westphal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816327508
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Gold, Silver, and Spice written by Barbara Osborne Westphal and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Favier
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gold & Spices written by Jean Favier and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eminent medievalist Jean Favier introduces and analyzes the political, social, moral, and economic milieux of the late Middle Ages that engendered Europe's transformation from feudalism to capitalism. ... Favier reveals that the ultimate consequence of this risk-taking was not merely the accumulation of wealth by such families as the Medici and the Fuggers, but the transposition of social and aesthetic values upon the populace, leading to the rise of the middle class."--Jacket.
Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307491226
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Spice written by Jack Turner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant, engrossing work, Jack Turner explores an era—from ancient times through the Renaissance—when what we now consider common condiments were valued in gold and blood. Spices made sour medieval wines palatable, camouflaged the smell of corpses, and served as wedding night aphrodisiacs. Indispensible for cooking, medicine, worship, and the arts of love, they were thought to have magical properties and were so valuable that they were often kept under lock and key. For some, spices represented Paradise, for others, the road to perdition, but they were potent symbols of wealth and power, and the wish to possess them drove explorers to circumnavigate the globe—and even to savagery. Following spices across continents and through literature and mythology, Spice is a beguiling narrative about the surprisingly vast influence spices have had on human desire. Includes eight pages of color photographs. One of the Best Books of the Year: Discover Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle
Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0006551734
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Spice written by Jack Turner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the trade that controlled the world and left an indelible impression on our taste buds; a sweeping story of avarice, ingenuity and exploration, spanning the globe and the centuries in its epic reconstruction of this magnificent obsession. Spices: for centuries the staple of cuisine, remedies and ritual, they have commanded the highest of prices. To this day, saffron is, per ounce, one of the most expensive commodities known to man. For their sake, fortunes have been made and lost, empires built and destroyed, and new worlds discovered. Astoundingly, in the 17th-century more people died for the sake of cloves than in all the European dynastic wars of the period. However the spice trade dates bank thousands of years before this. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs depict a merchant fleet sailing south to the Horn of Africa and returning triumphantly with a priceless cargo of cinnamon. Only the story of mankind's infatuation with precious metals can rival the story of spice in scope; and only the history of silver and gold rivals that of spice for its improbable and extraordinary combination of discovery and conquest, heroism and savagery, greed and violence.
Author : Letta Meinen
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781591132660
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (326 download)
Download or read book The Cinnamon Stick written by Letta Meinen and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2002 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cinnamon Stick" covers the history of cinnamon. Many events in the world were changed due to cinnamon and spices. The book is in four parts and also includes suggestions on foods and art activities used in each time period.
Author : Robert O. Fielding
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Spices, Their Histories: Valuable Information for Grocers written by Robert O. Fielding and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide that offers valuable information for grocers about various spices. The book covers the history of allspice, capsicum, cinnamon, cassia, cloves, ginger, mustard, nutmeg, mace, pepper, and cumin or cumin seed. It also provides detailed descriptions of each spice and its origins.
Author : Paul Freedman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300211317
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Out of the East written by Paul Freedman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How medieval Europe’s infatuation with expensive, fragrant, exotic spices led to an era of colonial expansion and discovery: “A consummate delight.” —Marion Nestle, James Beard Award–winning author of Unsavory Truth The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant—and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration, as traders pursued such common spices as pepper and cinnamon and rarer aromatic products, including ambergris and musk. Ultimately, the spice quest led to imperial missions that were to change world history. This engaging book explores the demand for spices: Why were they so popular, and why so expensive? Paul Freedman surveys the history, geography, economics, and culinary tastes of the Middle Ages to uncover the surprisingly varied ways that spices were put to use—in elaborate medieval cuisine, in the treatment of disease, for the promotion of well-being, and to perfume important ceremonies of the Church. Spices became symbols of beauty, affluence, taste, and grace, Freedman shows, and their expense and fragrance drove the engines of commerce and conquest at the dawn of the modern era. “A magnificent, very well written, and often entertaining book that is also a major contribution to European economic and social history, and indeed one with a truly global perspective.” —American Historical Review
Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300277210
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Spice written by Roger Crowley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control. Roger Crowley shows how this struggle shaped the modern world. From 1511 to 1571, European powers linked up the oceans, established vast maritime empires, and gave birth to global trade, all in the attempt to control the supply of spices. Taking us on voyages from the dockyards of Seville to the vastness of the Pacific, the volcanic Spice Islands of Indonesia, the Arctic Circle, and the coasts of China, this is a narrative history rich in vivid eyewitness accounts of the adventures, shipwrecks, and sieges that formed the first colonial encounters—and remade the world economy for centuries to follow.
Author : Thomas de Quincey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Works written by Thomas de Quincey and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjorie Shaffer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250021006
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Pepper written by Marjorie Shaffer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with anecdotes and fascinating information, "a spicy read indeed." (Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed the World) The perfect companion to Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History, Pepper illuminates the rich history of pepper for a popular audience. Vivid and entertaining, it describes the part pepper played in bringing the Europeans, and later the Americans, to Asia and details the fascinating encounters they had there. As Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds, said, "After reading Marjorie Shaffer's Pepper, you'll reconsider the significance of that grinder or shaker on your dining room table. The pursuit of this wizened berry with the bite changed history in ways you've never dreamed, involving extraordinary voyages, international trade, exotic locales, exploitation, brutality, disease, extinctions, and rebellions, and featuring a set of remarkable characters." From the abundance of wildlife on the islands of the Indian Ocean, which the Europeans used as stepping stones to India and the East Indies, to colorful accounts of the sultan of Banda Aceh entertaining his European visitors with great banquets and elephant fights, this fascinating book reveals the often surprising story behind one of mankind's most common spices.
Author : Duncan Townson
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780899080048
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Spices and Civilizations written by Duncan Townson and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1980 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how the spice trade changed the course of human history.
Author : John Goldingay
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830887962
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The First Testament written by John Goldingay and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Bible translations bend the text toward us, making the rough bits more palatable to our modern sensibilities. In this Old Testament translation, John Goldingay sets our expectations off balance by inviting us to hear the strange accent of the Hebrew text unbaptized in pious religiosity. Translating consistently, word by word, this unique interpretation allows us to read the sacred text through fresh eyes.
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821441027
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Golden Dream written by Robert Silverberg and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most persistent legends in the annals of New World exploration is that of the Land of Gold. This mythical site was located over vast areas of South America (and later, North America); the search for it drove some men mad with greed and, as often as not, to their untimely deaths. In this history of quest and adventure, Robert Silverberg traces the fate of Old World explorers lured westward by the myth of El Dorado. From the German conquistadores licensed by the Spanish king to operate out of Venezuela, to the journeys of Gonzalo Pizarro in the Amazon basin, and to the nearly miraculous voyage of Francisco Orellana to the mouth of the Amazon River, encountering the warlike women who gave the river its name, violence and bloodshed accompanied the determined adventurers. Sir Walter Raleigh and a host of other explorers spent small fortunes and many lives trying to locate Manoa, a city that was rumored to be El Dorado—City of Gold. Celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg recreates these legendary quests in The Golden Dream: Seekers of El Dorado.
Author : W. Cleon Skousen
Publisher : Verity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0934364451
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Fourth Thousand Years written by W. Cleon Skousen and published by Verity Publishing. This book was released on with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no period when the distant roar of history can be heard pounding on the pages of the past with greater fury than during the ten savage centuries known as The Fourth Thousand Years. This was the age of the first world empires, the days when Assyria, Babylon, Greece and Rome each displayed their passion for power. It was an age which demanded the resounding and inspired voices of many of God’s greatest spokesmen. The turbulent chaos of these centuries brought forth many mighty prophets of God -- Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Jonah, Lehi, Nephi, Daniel, Zechariah, and many others. The lives and times of all these men are in these pages. This is the third and final volume of this series dealing with the Old Testament. The volumes which preceded it were entitled: The First 2,000 Years, which covered the period from Adam to Abraham, and The Third Thousand Years, which covered Bible history from Abraham to David. This present volume deals with the exciting scriptural epic which emerged between the time of David and the coming of Christ. For those who find the Old Testament arduous reading, these three books should prove especially inspirational and helpful. This eBook includes the original index, illustrations, footnotes, table of contents and page numbering from the printed format.
Author : George Obadiah Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Royal Houses of Israel and Judah written by George Obadiah Little and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susheela Raghavan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420004360
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings written by Susheela Raghavan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A to Z Catalog of Innovative Spices and Flavorings Designed to be a practical tool for the many diverse professionals who develop and market foods, the Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings combines technical information about spices-forms, varieties, properties, applications, and quality specifications- with informatio
Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374219362
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Or, The True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader who Changed the Course of History written by Giles Milton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1616, Nathaniel Courthope was dispatched to Run, the most lucrative of the Spice Islands to hold off the massive Dutch Navy. But after a four-year siege, Britain ceded the island and its lucrative spice trade to Holland--in exchange for Manhattan.
