In "Spices" Fred Czarra explores a wide range of spice fact, fable and legend: from giant birds building cinnamon nests, to the trade routes of the ancient world, to the early modern encounters between the English, Portugese and Dutch that resulted in the first global war. In this history of spices he shows that the spice trade opened up the first era of globalization, where pe...(展开全部)

欧文·拉铁摩尔（1900—1989），著名历史学家、汉学家、蒙古学家，在中国度过了童年和青年时代，曾多次在中国边疆地区游历，曾担任哈佛燕京社研究员、美国约翰·霍普金斯大学教授，先后在美国、欧洲开辟汉学和蒙古学的研究阵地，曾被罗斯福委派为蒋介石的政治顾问，1972年应周恩 来邀请再度访华，是研究现代中国边疆问题和边疆史无法绕过的人物。其主要著作有《中国的亚洲内陆边疆》《中国简明史》等。 埃莉诺·拉铁摩尔（1895—1970），欧文·拉铁摩尔的妻子，长期协助丈夫的写作，著有《西域依偎》，与丈夫合著《中国简明史》等。 译者简介： 方笑天，考古学博士、北京大学考古文博学院信息中心馆员。 袁剑，历史学博士，中央民族大学民族学与社会学学院副教授，（教育部基地）中国少数民族研究中心边疆民族研究所所长，清华大学铸牢中华民族共同体意识研究培育基地特聘专家。

The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration as traders pursued such common spices as pepper and cinnamon, and rarer aromatic products including ambergris and musk. Ultimately, the spice quest led to imperial missio...(展开全部)

From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.

From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.