This article was written during the author's tenure as Isobel Thornley Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. It was first presented at the I.H.R.'s seminar in the Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, and subsequently awarded the Pollard Prize 2009. The author is grateful to the convenors and participants of the seminar for their probing questions and valuable comments. The author is also grateful for the advice of Daud Ali, William G. Clarence-Smith and Luke S. Clossey, and for the helpful comments of the examiners of his Ph.D. thesis. Any errors of fact or interpretation remain, of course, his sole responsibility.
‘Measuring by the bushel’: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade
Article first published online: 31 MAR 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00547.x
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Prange, S. R. (2011), ‘Measuring by the bushel’: reweighing the Indian Ocean pepper trade. Historical Research, 84: 212–235. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00547.x
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This article was written during the author's tenure as Isobel Thornley Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. It was first presented at the I.H.R.'s seminar in the Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, and subsequently awarded the Pollard Prize 2009. The author is grateful to the convenors and participants of the seminar for their probing questions and valuable comments. The author is also grateful for the advice of Daud Ali, William G. Clarence-Smith and Luke S. Clossey, and for the helpful comments of the examiners of his Ph.D. thesis. Any errors of fact or interpretation remain, of course, his sole responsibility.
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