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...Paul Wheatley Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 The Spice Trade of the Roman Empire: 29 B.C. to A.D. 641 . By J. Innes Miller . Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1969 . xxiv , 294 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Maps, Index. $11.75. BOOK REVIEWS The Spice Trade...

..., with Sumatra and the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, trailing behind. Before the present demand for tin and oil developed, the other regions of Indonesia played COMMUNICATION AND PRODUCTION 341 a comparatively minor role in the economic life of the Indies and therefore can be neglected in this historical sketch...

...). But positive hypotheses are not what this book is mostly about. It is a book in which, as the author puts it, "little has been learnt and much unlearnt" (p. 203). Much of what is unlearned has to do with the history of the spice trade in the ancient world and late antiquity. Although South Arabia did enjoy...

... with the history of the spice trade in the ancient world and late antiquity. Although South Arabia did enjoy a short period of commercial success built on native spices and transit trade with India, that period had come to an end by the third century A.D. After that time the Roman market for Arabian spices...

... of port and polity on the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra in pre- and protohistoric times; the middle six shift the focus to Thailand (Dhiravat Na Pombejra on Ayutthaya), Java (Kathirithamby-Wells on Banten), and the eastern islands of the archipelago (Villiers on the Spice Islands and Makassar, Ruurdje...

... became the strongest trading organization in the Indian Ocean. This dominance of Europe's India trade was based on strategies which eventually proved counterproductive. The monopoly in spices, with its fabulous profits, was acquired and maintained at immense cost in men and money a cost which ultimately...

... concerning Eastern Trade in Justinian's Digest of the Roman Law, and by several schedules attached to individual chapters, e.g., chapter 1: Summary of prices in denarii . . . per Roman pound quoted by Pliny . . . with the English equivalent per English pound; chapter 6: Spices of the Roman Empire; chapter 7...

... and the meanings they attribute to them, including changes in technology, ecological and health-related concerns, age, gender, aesthetics, price, marketing, and so on. Salient, also, is the sheer materiality of cows and buffaloes, curries and spices, tables and tableware through which meaning is conveyed. Once one...

... of the soil varies considerably, much of it being sterile, but corn, rice, sugar, tobacco, cotton, spices, and tropical fruits and vegetables are produced in a few places. The southern coast is the more healthful and productive.4 The fauna of the island in the smallness and the grotesqueness of its forms also...

..., we sense the tang of the Amsterdam wharves where the lumpers, their throats burnt with spice dust, were allowed "a small ration of gin with sugared pretzels." After these preliminaries, the body of the work comprises detailed analyses of trade in the nine commodities with which the company chiefly...

... Khan . . . gifts of sugar, green and black tea, spices (pepper and a kind of ginger, inbir’ ), and a surprising amount of wine and vodka . . . [This] reflects the changes that Peter the Great wrought when he opened Russia to wider trade with Europe, as well as the global reach of maritime trade...

... of the author's 1999 doctoral dissertation under the direction of Dietmar Rothermund in Ruprecht-Karls Universitat Heidelberg. The first half of the book contains background materials, including the geography of central places, the products and organization of the spice trade, land control, and taxation systems...

... Mrs. Meilink-Roelofsz has made extensive use of the Dutch East India Company archives of which she is the custodian, concerns the coming of the North Europeans, with emphasis on the impact of Dutch monopoly policy on the spice islands, the foreign Asian merchants, and the Javanese trading towns...

... of the Dutch East India Company archives of which she is the custodian, concerns the coming of the North Europeans, with emphasis on the impact of Dutch monopoly policy on the spice islands, the foreign Asian merchants, and the Javanese trading towns. In this rich collection of material (eighty pages of notes...

... introduction gives a thumbnail sketch of the history of British administration. The company's purpose in Benkulen was to produce pepper and develop spices which were denied them by the Dutch monopoly of the Spice Islands. Company administrators could never produce enough to pay for the considerable expenditure...

... Raffles (1818-24). But while these periods are stressed, the collection covers the whole 140 years of British administration. A forty-page introduction gives a thumbnail sketch of the history of British administration. The company's purpose in Benkulen was to produce pepper and develop spices which were...

... of the spice trade since Roman times, for cloves and nutmegs had acquired a greatly increased importance in relation to other spices, and the existence of the Moluccas as their source of supply had become known. In his consideration of European knowledge or beliefs about Asia in the age preceding the great...

... a certain amount of precious metals (mostly silver) to be traded on the Indian market at a profit and again to purchase Indian spices to be re-exported to the Continent to receive fresh stocks of precious metals. In fact, not only could England not afford to do otherwise; it could pull itself out of a total...

...Jill Forshee By comparison, the formal portraits of governor-generals (most in the service of the VOC) begin with the darkly severe, angular likeness of Jan Pieterszon Coen (ca. 1650, p. 79), infamous for his ruthless brutality in the coveted “Spice Islands” of Banda and beyond. The portraits...

... CRIBB University of Queensland Halmahera and Beyond: Social Science Research in the Moluccas. Edited by L E O N T I N E E. VISSER. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1994. vii, 249 pp. $29-00 (paper). Halmahera provided the material support for the dyadic center of the East Indies spice trade, the tiny islands...