Trading Empires and trade routes – History in the Margins

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City of Fortune

April 26, 2012, 5:08 am

I thought I knew something about Venice. A floating city carved out of a malaria-ridden lagoon. Merchant city-state turned maritime empire, with one foot in the Muslim world. The European end of the...

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Traveling the Silk Roads

April 23, 2014, 6:20 am

We tend to use the phrase “the Silk Road” as if it were the Route 66 of East-West commerce. In fact, it is a metaphor. German geographer Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen (1833-1905) invented the name...

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Re-Run: The First Common Market?

May 24, 2014, 6:07 am

Bruges. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress My Own True Love and I leave next week for Belgium and my thoughts are turning toward Waterloo, Flanders Field, and the Hanseatic League.* Especially...

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“Closing” Japan

April 28, 2015, 12:15 pm

Curious Japanese watching Dutchmen on Dejima. Katsushika Hokusa. ca 1802. In 1853 , Commodore Matthew Perry and his squadron of four “black ships of evil mien” opened Japanese ports to trade with the...

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The Violent and Often Ugly Story of How Portugal Won A Global Empire

January 5, 2016, 1:10 am

In works such as City of Fortune, Empires of the Sea and 1453, historian Roger Crowley focused on the struggles between the Renaissance powers–Christian and Muslim alike–over who would control the...

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A Spy in the Spice Trade

September 20, 2016, 1:42 am

You know the beginning of this story. In the fifteenth century, Portugal under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator * began maritime exploration along the coast of Africa. More or less a...

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Blue Mutiny

October 7, 2016, 1:49 am

In the fall of 1859, two years after the violent uprisings in Northern Indian known as the Indian Mutiny or Sepoy Rebellion,* thousands of peasant-farmers (ryots) in the Indian province of Bengal...

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City of Fortune

April 26, 2012, 5:08 am

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Traveling the Silk Roads

April 23, 2014, 6:20 am

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Re-Run: The First Common Market?

May 24, 2014, 6:07 am

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“Closing” Japan

April 28, 2015, 12:15 pm

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The Violent and Often Ugly Story of How Portugal Won A Global Empire

January 5, 2016, 1:10 am

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A Spy in the Spice Trade

September 20, 2016, 1:42 am

You know the beginning of this story. In the fifteenth century, Portugal under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator * began maritime exploration along the coast of Africa. More or less a...

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Blue Mutiny

October 7, 2016, 1:49 am

In the fall of 1859, two years after the violent uprisings in Northern Indian known as the Indian Mutiny or Sepoy Rebellion,* thousands of peasant-farmers (ryots) in the Indian province of Bengal...

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Asia’s Inland Trade, or How the Spice Trade Worked

February 17, 2017, 12:34 pm

The official trading area of the Dutch East India Company The way we learn the story in elementary school in the United States, European trading companies sailed East in search of spices and other...

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How the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes Work

March 28, 2017, 12:47 am

In the eighth century CE, after camels were introduced into North Africa, Muslim merchants of North Africa began to organize regular camel caravans across the western Sahara. North African merchants...

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