Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Spice Islands Forts: An illustrated history and catalogue

Spice Islands Forts: An illustrated history and catalogue

Pratt, Simon

Paperback

General World HistoryOther WarsSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 1922440612
ISBN13: 9781922440617
Publisher: Moshpit Pub
Published: Nov 16 2020
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.88
Height: 0.87 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Priceless nutmeg and cloves were for millennia only found on a scattering of active volcanos rearing up from equatorial seas at the far edge of the world; the Spice Islands of today's Indonesia.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to put them on the world map in 1512. To warn off the Spanish, they soon built the first Spice Islands fort. The profits were immense for whoever controlled these Spiceries, and a century of conflict and fort building followed as local sultanates, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch and the English all fought for supremacy. The Spice Islands hold one of the greatest concentrations of colonial forts anywhere in the world.

Also in

Southeast Asian History

View All