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‘Measuring by the bushel’: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade
Of all the oriental spices, black pepper was the most important until the eighteenth century. The historiography of the pepper trade is characterized by a strong focus on Europe in terms of both its economic significance in the ancient and medieval periods and the struggle for its control in the ear...
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Historical Research,
2011
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005242.pdf |