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Twilight of the pepper empire : Portuguese trade in south-west India in the early seventeenth century / A. R. Disney.
Lippincott Library HF3698.I4 D57 1978
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Disney, A. R. (Anthony R.), 1938-
- Series:
- Harvard historical studies ; 95.
- Harvard historical studies ; 95
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pepper (Spice).
- Commerce.
- History.
- Portugal--Commerce--India--History.
- Portugal.
- India--Commerce--Portugal--History.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 220 pages : map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1978.
- Summary:
- This study of the Portuguese commercial empire in India during the Hapsburg years is the most serious attempt yet mad to analyze the old Portuguese pepper trade--from the planting of orchards in the foothills of Malabar and Kanara to the unloading of spice-laden carracks in Lisbon.
- Notes:
- A revision of the author's thesis, Harvard University.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 201-211.
- ISBN:
- 0674914295
- OCLC:
- 3433363
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