Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: HB: 9780300267471,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 38 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
320 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 38 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
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...
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20.00 GBP
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Accursed Tower
The Crusaders' Last Battle for the Holy Land
ISBN: PB: 9780300254808,
Yale University Press,
August 2020
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 illus.
304 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 40 illus.
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immedia...
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10.99 GBP
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