The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

Michael Krondl

Ballantine Books

2008

318 páginas

10h 36m

ISBN-13: 9780345480842

Ranging from the medieval period to the present day, a history of the international spice trade focuses on the involvement of three important European cities--Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam--charting the growth of the spice trade in relation to the successive rise--and fall--of the three urban centers. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.