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Spices, Scents and Silk

Author : James F. Hancock
Publisher : CABI
ISBN 13 : 1789249740
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Spices, Scents and Silk written by James F. Hancock and published by CABI. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spices, scents and silks were at the centre of world trade for millennia. Through their international trade, humans were pushed to explore and then travel to the far corners of the earth. Almost from their inception, the earliest great civilizations - Egypt, Sumer and Harappa - became addicted to the luxury products of far-off lands and established long-reaching trade networks. Over time, great powers fought mightily for the kingdoms where silk, spices and scents were produced. The New World was accidentally discovered by Columbus in his quest for spices. In this book, eminent horticulturist and author James Hancock examines the origins and early domestication and culture of spices, scents and silks and the central role these exotic luxuries played in the lives of the ancients. The book also traces the development of the great international trade networks and explores how struggles for trade dominance and demand for such luxuries shaped the world.

Silk, Scents & Spice

Author : John Lawton
Publisher : Economica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Silk, Scents & Spice written by John Lawton and published by Economica. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication tells the story of the silk, scent and spice trade routes. Both a history and travelogue, this book is filled with color photographs, illustrating the author's journeys along routes once traced by trade caravans and vessels. Besides exotic merchandise these routes also carried new ideas, technologies and religions across vast distances, shaping the history of humanity. The oldest route was the Incense Trail, which linked the frankincense-producing regions of Arabia with the empires of antiquity. The Silk Road was the longest of the routes, stretching across mountains, desert and the steppes of Central Asia, joining the markets of China with those of Europe and the Middle East. The Spice Route connected the great civilizations of Europe, India and the Orient for over 2,000 years. Arab dhows, Chinese junks and Spanish galleons would sail this route laden with precious spices from Southeast Asia and the treasures of the Orient. Their trade of these routes bred international rivalries and conquests, and the search for these riches impelled Columbus to cross the Atlantic and Magellan to circumnavigate the globe.--Publisher's description.

Arts and Artists from an Economic Perspective

Author : Xavier Greffe
Publisher : Economica
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Arts and Artists from an Economic Perspective written by Xavier Greffe and published by Economica. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between the fine arts and economics —the contribution of various art forms toward economic growth and development, and the impact of economic factors on the creation of art.Xavier Greffe identifies the economic factors that can affect the emergence, flourishing, and disappearance of artistic activities. He begins with an analysis of the artistic markets where the players cannot be measured by standard economic yardsticks. The cast of characters include users who are initially unaware of the kind of satisfaction they can gain from unknown works of art, producers who do not know whether their upfront costs in the commissioning of new art and design will be covered, and the artists who are more interested in letting the creative muse guide their endeavors than in creating specifically defined works on demand. The book then explores the various dynamics that influence the development of the artistic sector: a revolving compromise between heritage and creation; a continuous passage between an original work of art and the products of cultural industries; and a permanent shift between profit and nonprofit institutions.Greffe provides a way to evaluate art from an economic perspective —that explains both the creation and development of creative movement, without judging the existence of works of art only in terms of economic logic.

Silk Roads

Author : Jeffrey D. Lerner
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789254736
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Silk Roads written by Jeffrey D. Lerner and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, there has been a new surge of interest in the history and legacies of the Silk Roads both within academic and public discourses. A field of Silk Roads Studies has come into its own. Consciously mirroring the temperament of its subject, the field has moved out of the narrow niches of particular disciplines to become a truly interdisciplinary endeavor. New research findings about the historical operations of the Silk Roads and interpretations of their legacies for the modern and contemporary world have broken down geographical and temporal divides that once demarcated the Silk Roads as primarily pre-modern and Old World-centered conduits of globalization. In light of these developments, the time is ripe to begin formulating a new definition of the contour of Silk Roads Studies and laying a new foundation for further work in this field. Silk Roads: From Local Realities to Global Narratives brings together leading scholars in multiple disciplines related to Silk Roads studies. It highlights the multiplicity of networks that constituted the Silk Roads, including land and maritime routes, and approaches the Silk Roads from Antiquity to China’s One Belt One Road Initiative from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas. This holistic approach to understanding ancient globalization, exchanges, transformations, and movements - and their continued relevance to the present - is in line with contemporary academic trends toward interdisciplinarity. Indeed, the Silk Roads is such an expansive topic that many approaches to its study must be included to represent accurately its many facets. The volume emphasizes exchange and transformation along the Silk Roads - moments of acculturation or hybridization that contributed to novel syncretic forms. It highlights the multiplicity of networks that constituted the Silk Roads, including land and maritime routes, and approaches to the Silk Roads from Antiquity to China’s One Belt One Road Initiative from Afro-Eurasia to the Americas.

Cumin, Camels, and Caravans

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520956958
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Cumin, Camels, and Caravans written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family’s history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives, historical accounts, and his expertise as an ethnobotanist, Nabhan describes the critical roles that Semitic peoples and desert floras had in setting the stage for globalized spice trade. Traveling along four prominent trade routes—the Silk Road, the Frankincense Trail, the Spice Route, and the Camino Real (for chiles and chocolate)—Nabhan follows the caravans of itinerant spice merchants from the frankincense-gathering grounds and ancient harbors of the Arabian Peninsula to the port of Zayton on the China Sea to Santa Fe in the southwest United States. His stories, recipes, and linguistic analyses of cultural diffusion routes reveal the extent to which aromatics such as cumin, cinnamon, saffron, and peppers became adopted worldwide as signature ingredients of diverse cuisines. Cumin, Camels, and Caravans demonstrates that two particular desert cultures often depicted in constant conflict—Arabs and Jews—have spent much of their history collaborating in the spice trade and suggests how a more virtuous multicultural globalized society may be achieved in the future.

Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook, 2nd Edition

Author : Workman Publishing
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 152352085X
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Everything You Need to Ace World History in One Big Fat Notebook, 2nd Edition written by Workman Publishing and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the brains behind Brain Quest comes the 2nd edition of the revolutionary World history study guide. Updated to include recent history and revised to reflect a more complete, balanced recounting of historical events. Big Fat Notebooks offer the support of a knowledgeable teacher in the form of an approachable peer—the notes of the smartest kid in class. Everything You Need to Ace World Historyin One Big Fat Notebook is the same indispensable resource so many students depend on, updated with new and improved content exploring ancient civilizations, indigenous cultures, social movements, war, colonialism, imperialism, and more! The revised edition provides a thoughtful, nuanced recounting of global historical events that de-centers Western, Indo-European perspectives. The Big Fat Notebooks meet Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and state history standards, and are vetted by National and State Teacher of the Year Award–winning teachers. They make learning fun, and are the perfect next step for every kid who grew up on Brain Quest.

Fragrant

Author : Mandy Aftel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594631417
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Fragrant written by Mandy Aftel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Perfumed Plume Award The “Alice Waters of American natural perfume” (indieperfume.com) and author of the Art of Flavor celebrates our most potent sense, through five rock stars of the fragrant world Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients from all over the world and creating artisanal fragrances, she has been an evangelist for the transformative power of scent. In Fragrant, through five major players in the epic of aroma, she explores the profound connection between our sense of smell and the appetites that move us, give us pleasure, make us fully alive. Cinnamon, queen of the Spice Route, touches our hunger for the unknown, the exotic, the luxurious. Mint, homegrown the world over, speaks to our affinity for the familiar, the native, the authentic. Frankincense, an ancient incense ingredient, taps into our longing for transcendence, while ambergris embodies our unquenchable curiosity. And exquisite jasmine exemplifies our yearning for beauty, both evanescent and enduring. In addition to providing a riveting initiation into the history, natural history, and philosophy of scent, Fragrant imparts the essentials of scent literacy and includes recipes for easy-to-make fragrances and edible, drinkable, and useful concoctions that reveal the imaginative possibilities of creating with—and reveling in—aroma. Vintage line drawings make for a volume that will be a treasured gift as well as a great read.

Perfumes and Spices

Author : A. Hyatt Verrill
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473391202
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book Perfumes and Spices written by A. Hyatt Verrill and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book A Hyatt Verrill endeavours to tell the stories of spices, soaps and perfumes, to give their sources or origins, their histories, their uses and the processes by which they are prepared or manufactured.

Common and Uncommon Scents

Author : Susan Stewart
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445693194
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Common and Uncommon Scents written by Susan Stewart and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensory journey though time, interpreting social (and political) history through the scents used by people from the Ancient Egyptians to Coco Chanel.

My Wife Is A Fairy

Author : Se XiaoLi
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1636899846
Total Pages : 895 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book My Wife Is A Fairy written by Se XiaoLi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-10-31 with total page 895 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lunar July half, ghost door wide open, the mother gave birth to me in July, but grandma was scared, said my life made seven words, is a short-life ghost, can not live seven days to die, in order to save me, grandma called three elder brothers to cheat me into the coffin, said this is the local custom, but I unexpectedly saw a little girl in the coffin......

Business Research Yearbook

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business Research Yearbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II

Author : Fernand Braudel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520400658
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II written by Fernand Braudel and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of Fernand Braudel's great work is the Mediterranean world in the second half of the sixteenth century, but Braudel ranges back in history to the world of Odysseus and forward to our time, moving out from the Mediterranean area to the New World and other destinations of Mediterranean traders. Braudel's scope embraces the natural world and material life, economics, demography, politics, and diplomacy.

The Scent Trail

Author : Celia Lyttelton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440688311
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Scent Trail written by Celia Lyttelton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique travel memoir, The Scent Trail charts a woman’s journey as she explores the magic and history behind the ingredients of her own bespoke perfume. When Celia Lyttelton visits a bespoke perfumer in London, she enters the heady and exotic world of scent. On a London backstreet she is transported to a world made up of thousands of oils, unguents and balms — all hidden away in an old Chinese medicine chest. And so begins Celia’s remarkable quest to discover the origin, history and culture of the many ingredients that make up her unique custom-made perfume. It is a quest that will take her from Tuscany to Morocco, from Sri Lanka to Tibet, from the peasants and farmers growing their own crops and the traders who sell to the perfume houses, to the “noses” who create the scents and the marketing kings involved in this billion dollar industry. As Celia explores the mythology, history and culture behind ingredients such as jasmine, nutmeg, musk and ambergris, she paints a vivid portrait of this mysterious, sensual world, conjuring up the people she has met and the places she has visited on her scent trail.

Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate

Author : Doris Behrens-Abouseif
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735411
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Practising Diplomacy in the Mamluk Sultanate written by Doris Behrens-Abouseif and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaborate and sensational gifts were the hallmark of Mamluk diplomacy. From Cairo, where they controlled the medieval spice trade and the holy sites of Christianity and Islam, the Mamluk Sultans - conscious of their humble slave origins - augmented their claims to legitimacy through brilliant displays of diplomatic gift-giving, creating a celebrated reputation for the Sultanate from Europe to the Far East. From spices, ceremonial textiles and military objects to elephants and giraffes, and even humans - either living or as severed heads - the offerings varied in combination and emphasis according to the status and circumstances of giver and receiver, but always created a sensation. Through an unparalleled study of primary sources and rigorous fieldwork, this original book - richly illustrated in colour - explores the unpredictable and nuanced art of the regal gift in the Mamluk Sultanate from 1250-1517. Doris Behrens-Abouseif not only provides the first study of this subject, but makes an important contribution to the study of diplomacy, economics, visual arts and material culture in the medieval period.

The Mistress of Spices

Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307476774
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Mistress of Spices written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work of magical realism, this bestselling novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman from another time who has a gift for the mystical art of spices. Now immortal, and living in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman, Tilo has set up shop in Oakland, California, where she administers curatives to her customers. But when she's surprised by an unexpected romance with a handsome stranger, she must choose between everlasting life and the vicissitudes of modern society. Spellbinding and hypnotizing, The Mistress of Spices is a tale of joy, sorrow, and one special woman's magical powers.

The Political Economy of East Asia

Author : Ming Wan
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483301923
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of East Asia written by Ming Wan and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students of international political economy, it is hard to ignore the growth, dynamism, and global impact of East Asia. Japan and China are two of the largest economies in the world, in a region now accounting for almost 30 percent more trade than the United States, Canada, and Mexico combined. What explains this increasing wealth and burgeoning power? In his new text, Ming Wan illustrates the diverse ways that the domestic politics and policies of countries within East Asia affect the region’s production, trade, exchange rates, and development, and are in turn affected by global market forces and international institutions. Unlike most other texts on East Asian political economy that are essentially comparisons of major individual countries, Wan effectively integrates key thematic issues and country-specific examples to present a comprehensive overview of East Asia’s role in the world economy. The text first takes a comparative look at the region’s economic systems and institutions to explore their evolution—a rich and complex story that looks beyond the response to Western pressures. Later chapters are organized around close examination of production, trade, finance, and monetary relations. While featuring extended discussion of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, Wan is inclusive in his analysis, with coverage including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines. The text is richly illustrated with more than fifty tables, figures, and maps that present the latest economic and political data to help students better visualize trends and demographics. Each chapter ends with extensive lists of suggested readings.

Scent

Author : Elise Vernon Pearlstine
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030024696X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Scent written by Elise Vernon Pearlstine and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the natural history of scent and human perceptions of fragrance from the viewpoint of plant and pollinator "An evocative journey that awakens one's curiosity to an oft-forgotten sense."--Dana Dunham, Scientific American Plants have long harnessed the chemical characteristics of aromatic compounds to shape the world around them. Frankincense resin from the genus Boswellia seals injured tissues and protects trees from invading pathogens. Jasmine produces a molecule called linalool that attracts pollinating moths with its flowery scent. Tobacco uses a similarly sweet-smelling compound called benzyl acetone to attract pollinators. Only recently in the evolutionary history of plants, however, have humans learned to co-opt their fragrances to seduce, heal, protect, and alter moods themselves. In this wide-ranging and accessible new book, biologist-turned-perfumer Elise Vernon Pearlstine turns our human-centered perception of fragrance on its head and investigates plants' evolutionary reasons for creating aromatic molecules. Delving into themes of spirituality, wealth, power, addiction, royalty, fantasy, and more, Pearlstine uncovers the natural history of aromatic substances and their intersection with human culture and civilization.